Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps: Turkish Boys Let Out of School
Decamps was born in Paris. In his youth he traveled in the East, and reproduced
Oriental life and scenery with a bold fidelity to nature that puzzled
conventional critics. His powers, however, soon came to be recognized,
and he was ranked along with Delacroix and Ingres as one of the leaders of the French Orientalist school. At the Paris Exhibition of 1855 he received the grand or council medal.
This painting shows that some things truly are universal.
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