Emmanuel-joseph Lauret (1809-1882) ''oued In The Algerian Sahara''

东方主义 Emmanuel-Joseph Lauret said Lauret elder, born in Pignans on May 31, 1809 and died in Toulon on June 10, 1882, belongs to the generation of Orientalist painters who focus on rendering light and atmosphere. It marks a turning point in this artistic movement of the 19th century.

Emmanuel Lauret studied under Louis Clérian at the School of Fine Arts in Aix-en-Provence. Installed in Toulon after his studies, he had to flee the cholera epidemic which ravaged the city, and took refuge in his native village. After a trip to Brittany, he exhibited for the first time, in 1841, at the Salon in Paris, in which he participated regularly until 1861. Installed in Marseilles from 1841 to 1843, he then returned to Toulon for several years.

Like others, a great traveler at heart, he fell in love with Africa and in 1849 he went to Algeria where he lived until 1862. He then discovered the oases of Biskra, El Kantara and Bou -Saâda, whose light and atmosphere will make him modify his technique and clarify his palette.

The year of his arrival in Algeria, he exhibited his works at the bookseller Dubos, in Algiers. For about twelve years he taught drawing at the town college. In 1851, with other French painters living in Algeria, among others Célestin Liogier, Gustave-Désiré Bournichon, André Durand, Victor Fulconis and Ernest-Francis Vacherot, he organized an exhibition at the Djenina Palace, the first of what became the Algerian Society of Fine Arts. At the origin of the development of artistic activity in the City of Algiers, the Society acquired and exhibited works with a view to founding a museum. She also provided artistic education. Stricken with paralysis at the end of his life, Lauret was forced to return permanently to Toulon, where he died in 1882.