On the Nile
Charles Théodore Frère
ca. 1878
Frederick and Julia Billings acquired three Egyptian scenes by Frère, a French landscape and genre painter who studied under Cogniet and Roqueplan, and who first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1834. Frère visited Algeria in 1837 and began painting the Near Eastern exotic scenes for which he became best known. In subsequent years, Frère traveled widely around the Mediterranean. During this time he visited Malta and Greece; spent a year and a half in Constantinople; and toured Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. The artist's paintings from those travels began to appear in the Salons of 1855 and later.
Oil on canvas. L 38.5, W 76 cm
Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park, MABI 3931