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39.  Fellah Women on the Edge of the NILE


 Artist: François BARRY, French, (1813 - 1905)
 Execution date (approximate): 1887
 Téchnique: Oil on Canvas, (Signed lower right and dated)
 Measures: 33 x 41 cm.
 Description: The Palaces of the Fatimides of the 10th century, were of great attraction to
 the painters visiting Egypt, and especially with the Fellahi poor people who had to go to
 the edge of the Nile river to wash. Some Fellah women (village women) washing their
 clothes and taking water at the edge of the Nile-Egypt. In the back are the Palaces of the
 Fatimides (from the 10th. century).


 Biography
 Barry was a French painter born in Marseille. He studied painting at the atelier of Aubert in
 Marseille, and at the atelier of Gudin and Isabey in 1840 in Paris. Since he lived in Marseille
 he admired the port and the ships, and became a painter of marine landscapes. He was
 not an official painter of the navy. He traveled to the Middle-East and to Egypt, where he
 painted Orientalist scenes. He was an Orientalist, a painter of landscape, and a painter
 of marines. Whilst he was studying in Paris, he obtained two medals as a reward for his
 marines on Marseille attracting a lot of success. He then travelled to Egypt, accompanying
 The Prince Jérôme Napoléon in an official mission in 1862-1863 (for the construction of
 the Suez Canal), and Constantinople in Turkey. He painted Oriental scenes of daily life
 in Assouan , the Nile, Cairo, Alexandria (1865), and oriental landscapes of Constantinople,
 and Smyrne (Turkey).











































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