Oil on cardboard, Acrobates Japonais by Louis Dumoulin
Oil on cardboard, Acrobates Japonais by Louis Dumoulin
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Louis Jules DUMOULIN (1860-1924)
French painter considered during his lifetime to be a landscape painter and a major exponent of the panorama phenomenon.
He is also a traveling painter.
He made his first major trip outside Europe in 1888, on an official mission to Japan ordered by the Ministry of Public Instruction.
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| Dimensions | 55.5 × 41 cm |
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On his return to Paris in 1889, he exhibited some one hundred paintings inspired by his travels, which had taken him to China, Indochina and Malaysia as well as Japan, at the Galerie Georges Petit.
Eleven of Dumoulin's paintings from this exhibition were selected (including seven with a Japanese theme) by the Société nationale des beaux-arts for its 1890 Salon5.
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) saw this exhibition and was impressed by Dumoulin's paintings.
In correspondence with his brother Theo, including two written letters, he expressed his desire to meet Dumoulin (whom he spelled "Desmoulins") as "the one who makes Japan".
Two of his Japanese-themed paintings, inspired by photographs collected during his trip, were acquired by the French government and are now housed at the Musée Guimet in Paris.
