Victor Pierre Huguet, 1835 – 1902

ORIENTAL CAVALCADE ON A MOUNTAIN PATH Oil on canvas. 40 x 59.5 cm. Signed lower right. Rocky, bare path above a bay, riders, camels with luggage and companions on foot are shown in bright southern light, like an oriental snapshot. Such oriental impressions are the main content of Victor Pierre Huguet's work. He studied under the landscape and animal painter Émile Loubon at the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Marseille. He later became a pupil of the orientalist Eugène Fromentin in Paris. In 1852, he undertook his first trip to Egypt. A year later, he accompanied the marine painter Jean-Baptiste Henri Durand-Brager on an expedition to paint scenes from the Crimean War. In 1859 he exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon and the Salon in Marseille. From 1893, regular exhibitions at the Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français. He made numerous trips to Istanbul, Egypt, Libya and Algeria. (14014828) (11) Victor-Pierre Huguet, 1835 - 1902 ORIENTAL CAVALCADE ON A HIGH ROUTE Oil on canvas. 40 x 59.5 cm. Signed lower right.