Michelet Georges (1873-1946) “souk In Aleppo, Syria” Lebanon Palmyra Beirut Damascus Galentz Paris

MICHELET Georges (1873-1946)

"The souk in Aleppo, Syria"

Oil on canvas,
Signed and dated 1929 lower right,
Located lower left "Souks",

Rare work by the orientalist painter Georges Claude Michelet which represents a lively street in the heart of the souk in Aleppo in Syria.
The artist describes the animation of the souk with the many shops and workshops that follow one another in the street.
We also notice on the right a minaret of one of the mosques of the old city.

We can compare our painting to a preparatory work by the artist on the same subject and located in Aleppo, which went on sale at AT Auction in October 2018.

A student of Gustave Boulanger and Jules Lefebvre at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he met and became friends with the painter Paul Sérusier, of whom he painted a portrait of his friend in 1887.
A painter in love with the Orient, Georges Claude Michelet visited the Ottoman Empire and settled in Brousse. He returned from Turkey to settle in Beirut and continued to paint while giving lessons to a few students including Galentz in the early 1930s and Terpenian in the 1940s.
During this period, he painted the souks in Aleppo, the ruins of Palmyras, caravans in the desert and portraits of its inhabitants.
He died in Beirut in 1946.

This work is a rare testimony to the animation of the souk in Aleppo at the beginning of the 20th century.

Dimensions: 70 x 83 cm without frame and 85.5 x 99 cm with its original wooden frame. (old worm holes in the frame, without major impact)

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