Sunday, May 25, 2025

Eduard Charlemont
(1848- 1906)
 
Eduard Charlemont was an Austrian painter.
After graduating from the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Charlemont traveled to many countries in central Europe and finally settled in Paris, where he lived for the next thirty years. In Paris, several times he won the first prize of the Paris Salon, an annual exhibition held by the French Academy of Fine Arts (French: Académie des Beaux-Arts). The most famous work of Charlemont is The Guardian of the Seraglio, widely known as The Moorish Chief, depicting a Moorish swordsman guarding a seraglio (part of a typical wealthy Arabic villa, where women stayed when strangers entered the house).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eduard_Charlemont


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late 1800
Oil on wood
41.5 x 54 cm
Regional Gallery in Liberec, Czechia

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