''Paysage oriental'' (Eastern landscape) - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne Paul Pascal (1839–1905) was a French landscape painter. He did landscape paintings of the Middle East and the Mediterranean coast with

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. After he emigrated to the United States in 1893, he did paintings of the American wilderness with Native Americans. His artwork is exhibited in museums in France.

Early life

Paul Pascal was born in 1839

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, France. His family were

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s (cabinet-makers). He grew up in North America. Pascal graduated from the

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in Paris.

Career

Pascal began his career as a painter in Toulouse in the 1870s. By the 1880s, he moved to Paris, where he became a landscape painter. He mostly did landscapes of the Middle East, but also Italy, the Mediterranean coast and the

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. He only painted with

. Pascal emigrated to the United States in 1893. He continued to do landscape paintings, including some depicting Native Americans.

Death and legacy

Pascal died in poverty in 1905 in Washington, D.C. His paintings are exhibited at the Musée Paul Dupuy in Toulouse, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Narbonne, and the Beaux Arts Museum in

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. They were also auctioned by

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, and

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References

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