Mattéo Brondy (1866-1944) - Cavalier marocain, Maroc

BRONDY Mattéo (1866-1944)

" Moroccan Cavalryman "

Oil on canvas,
Signed at the bottom right,

Beautiful Orientalist work by painter Mattéo Brondy depicting a southern Moroccan cavalryman in front of a marabout, perhaps the marabout of Sidi Aïssa in Meknes.
His talent is mastered, the details precise and his colors remarkably blazing.

This is very likely a Makhzen cavalryman, or Maghzen, referring to a supplementary unit in Morocco. Its fighters (Mokhaznis) generally lived with their families under a tent, around the post to which they were assigned. They could be employed on foot or on horseback and acted as police. They are recognizable by their large hats.

A student at the Académie Julian in Paris, under the great masters Jules Lefèvre, Tony Robert-Fleury and Rochegrosse, he leaves the workshop once he has acquired his technique. Independent artist, loving life and travel, he paints solely for pleasure. He visits Italy, then Sub-Saharan Africa where the light, too powerful, does not tempt him. The strains of war bring him to North Africa, to Morocco, and more particularly to Meknès. He exhibits in Morocco, Algeria and Paris.

Mattéo Brondy confesses in a letter: "I consider painting must be the image of life and fix as best as it can the beautiful scenes that charm our eyes, with light contributing to emphasize their effects and to render them indelible in our memory. And what is true for grand outdoor scenes is no less true for interior scenes where the softened effects of light contribute to making the impression of calm and serenity we feel involuntarily when we visit a medina more compelling."
It is in the loving embrace of painting and of places that subjugate him that he paints landscapes, daily scenes, with remarkable talent or he doodles in his sketchbook.

Note: Delicate craquelures, with no impact, are to be noted in the sky.

Dimensions: 73 x 60 cm without frame and 86.5 x 73.5 cm with its original wooden frame.

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