Brest Fabius (1823-1900) - Alter Bauernhof unter Eichbäumen

Dreamlike work by Germain Fabius Brest 1823-1900

Old farmstead under oak trees

Oil on canvas
Signed

Condition as shown in the photos
Photographed once in sunlight and once under artificial light

Original frame which is not part of the offering but is included free of charge

Provenance acquired at a Swiss auction house in 1960

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Germain Fabius Brest (* July 31, 1823 in Marseille; died November 5, 1900 in the same place), who usually appears as Fabius Brest, was a French Orientalist and landscape painter.

Brest was a pupil of Émile Loubon in Marseille from 1845 and then of Constant Troyon in Paris. On the advice of Loubon (who had visited Palestine himself in 1849) Brest traveled to Palestine, then to Asia Minor, Eastern Anatolia and Constantinople (1857), a multi-year stay that would shape him for the rest of his life. From these years in the Orient (1855–1859) he brought back numerous paintings, mainly landscapes and city views. Some of his best-known works were shown at the Paris Art Exhibition of 1861.[1] After his travels in the eastern Mediterranean and the Levant, Brest also visited Algeria.

His travels provided the subjects for most of the works he created later in life. Street scenes, buildings shaded by trees (mosques, houses, but also churches) and views by the water (e.g., along the shores of the Bosporus) are the dominant motifs in his Orientalist paintings. Brest also painted views of Venice, Milan or the landscapes of southern France; in particular, Brest’s views of Venice were very popular and were shown at the art exhibitions of 1868 and 1872–1874.