"Traveling Painter Africa Senegal "
Profile portrait of an African woman against a yellow background. The painting is painted on a hardboard panel, signed lower left, and framed in a white-painted molded wooden frame. Without this frame, the painting measures 60.5 x 46 cm. Following the Orientalist movement of the 19th century, many European painters traveled to sub-Saharan Africa in search of new subjects and a different light. Jacques de Saint Seine (1897-1972) is known for painting the Bassari people in Senegal.