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Alberto Pasini (1826-1899) was born in Busseto (Emilia-Romagna), and later attended the Academy at Parma. Having enjoyed some local success with his lithography, as well as with his painting, he was encouraged to move to Paris. He studied there from 1851 to 1853 under Eugene Cicéri. Pasini then transferred to the studio of M. E. Isabey, and first exhibited at the Salon in 1853. An opportunity came at the time of the Crimean War in 1855, when, on the recommendation of Théodore Chassériau, Pasini went as a replacement for him, as a painter in the entourage of the French Minister, Nicolas Prosper Bourée, leader of the French legation to the Persian Gulf and Tehran. As part of the Minister’s suite, Pasini first visited Persia and Turkey, painting as he went. He travelled to Istanbul between 1868 and 1869, and then to Asia Minor and Syria in 1873. Pasini travelled widely in Europe, and from 1878 visited Venice several times. He journeyed with Jean-Léon Gérôme to Spain from 1879 to 1883, producing images of Granada and the Alhambra. Although his contemporaries thought of him as a talented landscape and architectural painter, Pasini also excelled at busy scenes of everyday life, especially in his Orientalist pictures. He was influenced early on by the painters Théodore Rousseau and Eugène Fromentin in the 1850s, but went on to develop his own distinctive style. After the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), Pasini returned to Italy, but continued to exhibit at the Salon until his death in 1899.

Alberto Pasini (Italian, 1826-1899)

A resting guard with his horse

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Alberto Pasini (Italian, 1826-1899)
A resting guard with his horse
signed 'A. Pasini' (lower left)
oil on canvas
8 x 6 3/8 in. (20.3 x 16.2 cm.)

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