Jean Maurice Bompard (11 February 1857 – 1936) was a French Orientalist painter; one of the founders of the

Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français The Société des Peintres Orientalistes Français (; " Orientalist French Painters Society") was an art society founded in 1893 to promote not only Orientalism but also the travel of French artists in the Far East. Formation and early history F ...

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He was born in

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. At a very young age, in 1865, his family moved to

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, where he later studied painting with Dominique Antoine Magaud. He then went to Paris, where he was a student of the Orientalist

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and the history painter

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, at the

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. His first exhibit was in 1878. Four years later, he obtained a grant that enabled him to visit Germany, Italy, Spain and

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. Not long after returning, in 1889, he married Amélie Perretti, and they immediately set off for a three-month stay in

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. He would go there every winter for the next few years, until 1893, when the local people became suspicious of his activities. After that, until 1908, he wintered in Venice. In his later years, he was a free-lance artist in Paris. Bompard's Orientalist works depicted scenes from daily life; notably ''The Butchers of Chetma'', which was presented at the

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in 1890. He also created numerous views of Venice during his stays there. His works may be seen at the Musée Denys-Puech, the

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List of works by Bompard
@ the Musée d'Orsay and the

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. The common areas of the Grand Hôtel Broussy in Rodez (lounge and dining room) feature his decorative murals. Bompard died in Paris in 1936. Longchamp192 Bompard Chetma.jpg, Chetma Oasis,

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(Agen) L'Oued Chetma (Algérie) en été, 1890 - Maurice Bompard - Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Agen.jpg, Oued Chetma (Algeria) in summer, 189

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More works by Bompard
@ ArtNet * "Bompard, Maurice". In: Ulrich Thieme, Felix Becker (Eds.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart'', Vol.4: Bida–Brevoort. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig 1910, pg. 26
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