Henri Célestin Louis Dabadie (1 December 1867, Pau - 19 October 1949,

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) was a French landscape and Orientalist painter.

Biography

He was a student of

Jules-Élie Delaunay Jules-Élie Delaunay (; June 13, 1828 – September 5, 1891) was a French academic painter. Biography He was born at Nantes in the Loire-Atlantique ''département'' of France. Delaunay studied under Flandrin, and at the École des Beaux ...

and Henri Michel-Lévy. After completing his studies, he devoted himself to

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landscape painting; primarily in

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. He alo painted harbor scenes in

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and

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. From 1894, he was a regular exhibitor at the Salon of the

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. He was awarded a third-class medal in 1895 and a second-class medal in 1901. Thanks to the

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, he was able to spend a year at the

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in Algeria, and pay a visit to Tunisia. In 1928, he was named a Knight in the

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. That same year, he won the

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and settled in

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, where he taught at the

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, operated by

Victor Tardieu Victor François Tardieu (30 April 1870, Orliénas - 12 June 1937, Hanoi) was a French painter; cofounder of what is now known as the Vietnam University of Fine Arts. Biography In 1887, he was admitted to the École nationale des beaux-arts d ...

Sources

* Dabadie, Henri. In: Ulrich Thieme (Ed.): ''Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart''. Vol. 8: Coutan–Delattre. E. A. Seemann, Leipzig 1912, pgs. 247–24
Online
* Marion Vidal-Bué, ''Alger et ses peintres (1830-1960)'', Méditerranée, 2002, pg. 280 * Élisabeth Cazenave, ''L'Afrique du Nord révélée par les musées de province'', Bernard Giovanangeli Editeur, 2004

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