Currently not on view
Le Carnage,
1890
Georges Clairin, French, 1843–1919
y1993-40
More Context
Special Exhibition
<p>Georges Clairin trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and became known for grand historical paintings, Symbolist themes, and portraits. <em>Le Carnage</em> may draw from extravaganzas he witnessed in Morocco that involved hundreds of Arab horsemen in mock equestrian battles. This painting was among several of his large compositions of anecdotal dreamscapes set in exotic surroundings that have been called the "Orient of the Romantics." Clairin’s memories of traveling in Italy, Spain, Algeria, and Egypt, as well as his experience in the Franco-Prussian war (1870–71), provided him with images for his paintings. </p>
Information
Title
Le Carnage
Dates
1890
Maker
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
110.2 x 150.2 cm (43 3/8 x 59 1/8 in.)
frame: 134 × 174 × 8 cm (52 3/4 × 68 1/2 × 3 1/8 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of the Forbes Magazine Collection: Malcolm S. Forbes, Class of 1941, Malcolm S. Forbes Jr., Class of 1970, and Christopher Forbes, Class of 1972
Object Number
y1993-40
Signatures
signed lower left: G. Clairin
Culture
Type
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s New York, May 28, 1981, lot 121; Forbes Magazine Collection (until 1993; sale, Christie’s New York, October 14, 1993, bought in; gift to Princeton University Art Museum).
- Georges Marbek and Bob Benamou, Les perfectionnistes, 1843-1917: peintres du réel et de l'imaginaire: [exposition], 27 novembre 1974-27 janvier 1975, Galerie Tanagra, Paris, (Paris: La Galerie, 1974)., p. 8, no. 2 (Illus.)
- Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. 1981. Important 19th century European paintings: part 1, sale code po. 25 November 1981, London., lot 121 (color illus.)
- The Forbes Magazine Collection of Orientalist paintings, drawings, watercolors and sculpture, (New York: Christie, Manson et Woods, 1993).
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1993", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 53, no. 1 (1994): p. 46-95., p. 87
- Peter Turchin, Historical dynamics: why states rise and fall (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003).,
