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Gabriel Joseph Marie Augustin Ferrier is a French arist, but somewhat overlooked. He was active during the impressionist era that dominated French art overwheaming academic artist like Ferrier. He painted portraits, historical works, and evocative Orientalist subjects. Ferrier painted at a time that France was building an empite heavily focused on Muslim North Afrioca which was is what French orientalism mostly depicted. Gabriel was born in Nîmes (1847). He did not come from anartisric family. He came fom a solid middle-class family. His father was a pharmacis. There weas little thought of an artistic career. Young Gbriel exhinited a passion for drawing. Thisdeveloped into an interest in painting. This brought him to Paris which was not just the center of French art, but the whole international art world (19th century). He studied at the famed renowned École des Beaux-Arts. This dominated French academic art which dealt with drawing, anatomy, perspective, as well as the study of classical and Renaissance masters. Ferrier carved out a substntial body of work in a art world dominted by the Impressionists. He first exhibited was at the Salon (1869). He was awarded the Prix de Rome (1871). He continued his studies at the French Academy in Rome (1873-76). His body of work included an electic mixture of beautifully eecuted portris, oriental (mostly Algerian) scenes, a mix of mytholohical, exotic, anf religious creations, and other images. One art hitorian describes him as 'a painter who navigated the shifting artistic currents of his time with skill and dedication.' We do not ee manyimages of children, he seems more interested on women.
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