A Levant that is never coming back. Paintings by Swiss Orientalist painter Louis-Auguste Veillon. Living from 1834 to 1890, he studied art in Geneva and later in Paris.

A Mosque by the Water at Dusk. Undated, by 1890. Swiss. Oil on board. Louis-Auguste Veillon, painter (1834-1890). Signed A Veillon on the lower right. Image © Koller International Auctions. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://www.kollerauktionen.ch/en/506439———-1202-AUGUSTE-LOUIS-VEILLON.-Mosche-1202_506439.html?RecPos=11

Women Carrying Water by the Nile. Undated, by 1890. Swiss. Oil on canvas. Louis-Auguste Veillon, painter (1834-1890). Signed A Veillon on the lower right. Image © Koller International Auctions. Artwork itself in the public domain due to age. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Auguste_Louis_Veillon_-_Women_carrying_water_by_the_Nile.jpg

The Temple at Philae. Undated, by 1890. Swiss. Oil on canvas. Louis-Auguste Veillon, painter (1834-1890). Signed A Veillon on the lower left. Image © CHRISTIE’S 2022. Fair use license. via https://www.christies.com/lot/lot-auguste-louis-veillon-swiss-18341890-the-temple-6154434/?

Being dramatic with Hungarian Orientalist painter Gyula Tornai (1861-1928). Maybe it looked like that. Maybe it didn’t. Tornai exhibited to great acclaim at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle.

.The New Necklace. Undated, by 1928. Hungarian. Oil on canvas. Gyula Tornai, artist (1861-1928). Signed TORNAI, GY on the lower left. Image
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The holy cleansing of the Samurai. Undated, by 1928, exhibited at the Berlin, Kunstsalon Keller & Reiner, in Berlin in 1907. Hungarian. Oil on canvas. Gyula Tornai, artist (1861-1928). Signed Tornai GY on the lower right. Image
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he favorite. Undated, by 1928. Hungarian. Oil on canvas. Gyula Tornai, artist (1861-1928). Artwork in the public domain due to age via https://artvee.com/dl/the-favourite-5/

Camels, all of these works having one or more. French, painted by Orientalist painter Charles-Théodore Frère (1814-1888). Studying at the École des Beaux-Arts, he later accompanied the Empress Eugénie and her party to Egypt in 1869.

“An Arab Encampment.” 19th c. French. Oil on panel. Signed “TH. FRÈRE” on the lower left. Identified on a label from Mathaf Gallery, Ltd., London, affixed to the reverse. Image © 1999 – 2020 SKINNER, INC. Fair use license. via https://live.skinnerinc.com/lots/view/4-1KAOQJ/charles-thodore-frre-french-1814-1888

“Desert Encampment.” 19th c. French. Oil on canvas. Signed on the lower right. Image source: Sotheby’s. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Desert_Encampment_by_Charles_Th%C3%A9odore_Fr%C3%A8re.jpg

“Paysage d’Algérie.” 1838. French. Oil on canvas. Collections of the Musée d’art et d’histoire de Narbonne. In the public domain in the United States because the artist died over 100 years ago. via https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles-Th%C3%A9odore_Fr%C3%A8re_-_Paysage_d%27Alg%C3%A9rie.jpg

A Jerusalem that isn’t coming back through the Orientalist eye of German painter Gustav Bauernfeind (1848-1904).

german-colony-bauernfeind-aquarelle — “German Colony in the Holy Land.” No date. Watercolor. In the public domain due to age. via https://israel-tourguide.info/2014/02/21/gustav-bauernfeind-and-orientalism/

BauernfeindGustav_Jerusalem_OilBoard_30x46cm — “Jerusalem.” No date. Oil on board. Image © Stern Gallery, Tel Aviv. Fair use license. via https://sterngallery.art/artwork/artists/bauernfeind-gustav/jerusalem-9/#.Xn8f0ohKjqU

Dh189R0XUBMrM_g — “The Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem.” In the public domain due to age. via https://threader.app/thread/869601110771851268

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