Orientalist Painting

HONOÉ BOZE born 1830 Mauritius died 1909 in Marseille oil on panel Bedouin horsemen at dusk Grandnephew of the painter Joseph Boze, Honoré Boze was born in Mauritius to a Provençal father and a Hindu mother of great beauty. His father, a ship captain and merchant in Mauritius, who would become Orleanist mayor of Martigues and general councilor of Bouches-du-Rhône, forced to leave Provence, took him to Paris where he was able to visit exhibitions and Salons. He developed a passion for the orientalism of Eugène Fromentin's paintings. He then returned to Provence with his father. He then enrolled as a student at the École des Beaux-Arts in Marseille with Émile Loubon as director and whose classes he followed. He married a widow with properties in Oran. He was then able to travel to Algeria where he found many subjects for his paintings. He experienced setbacks in his old age which he endured with patience. He exhibited in several exhibitions and in Salons. He was elected to the Academy of Marseille in 1900.