Artist
Émile Prisse d'Avennes
Émile Prisse d'Avennes is an Orientalism artist. 2 works are cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Émile Prisse d’Avennes painted scenes of daily life in Egypt in the 1830s, using oil paint to capture people and places. His works show a baker and his assistant outside a shop selling cakes, and a mother with her child in the countryside. He worked at a time when European artists traveled to Egypt to document its people and customs. To see more scenes of Egyptian life from this era, tap An Egyptian Fellahah with Her Child.
Works by Émile Prisse d'Avennes
Collections represented
Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum in the United Kingdom is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.8 million objects.