Arabs Crossing a Ford
$47.00
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- 380g/m² cotton canvas — certified museum quality
- Solid wood stretcher bar with 0.75” gallery wrap
- HD Giclée print — colour-true to the original
- Ready to hang — hanging hardware included
Arabs Crossing a Ford, painted by Eugène Fromentin, captures a scene from the Algerian desert that Fromentin visited repeatedly between 1846 and the early 1850s, part of the Orientalist wave of French painters and writers who found in North Africa a landscape of light and subject matter unavailable at home. Fromentin was as much a writer as a painter — his travel accounts of Algeria remain classics of French Orientalist literature — and his paintings share the same close, observant attention to atmosphere and daily life.
Unlike the theatrical harem fantasies of some Orientalist contemporaries, Fromentin favored precisely observed genre scenes of everyday desert life — caravans, hunts, river crossings — rendered with a restrained, silvery palette that set him apart from the more exoticized tendencies of the movement.
Held in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, this masterwork is presented here as a premium stretched canvas reproduction, printed on museum-quality matte canvas and hand-wrapped around a solid 0.75-inch gallery wrap frame — ready to hang and built to last.
| Artist | Eugène Fromentin |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 20 x 24 1/2 in. (50.8 x 62.2 cm) |
| Collection | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
| Movement | Orientalism (Romanticism) |
| Available sizes | |
| Small | 40 × 30 cm (16″ × 12″) |
| Medium | 50 × 40 cm (20″ × 16″) |
| Large | 90 × 60 cm (36″ × 24″) |
| All sizes include a 0.75" gallery wrap. Ready to hang — no framing required. | |
