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Alexandre Bida

Alexandre Bida (1813 - 1895) was active/lived in France.  Alexandre Bida is known for Orientalist theme drawing and painting, book illustration, teaching, lithography.

Alexandre BIDA (Toulouse, 1813 - Bühl, 1895)

Regarded in his day as one of the finest draughtsmen of the 19th century, Alexandre Bida abandoned a career as a teacher of classics to study with Eugène Delacroix in Paris. It was the influence of Delacroix, as well as the work of Gabriel-Alexandre Decamps and Auguste Raffet, that led Bida to be interested in Orientalist* themes and subjects.

An early visit to Syria and Constantinople instilled in him a fascination with Near Eastern subjects, and at his Salon debut in 1847 he showed two highly finished drawings of A Cafe in Constantinople and A Cafe on the Bosphorus; both works were purchased by the State.

Bida visited Egypt in 1850, and Greece, Turkey and the Crimea in 1855, and continued to exhibit regularly at the Paris Salons*, showing almost nothing but finished drawings. In a letter of 1870, the painter Eugène Fromentin praised Bida’s draughtsmanship, noting that ‘his drawings are pai   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 2003 characters.]  Artist bio

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