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Eugène DESHAYES (Algiers, 1862 - Algiers, 1939) South Algerian caravan Original oil on canvas 55 x 33 cm Signed lower right Eug Deshayes H: 31 x W: 54 cm Orientalist painter trained at the École des Beaux-Arts in Algiers, then in Jean-Léon Gérôme's Paris studio. He began exhibiting in the 1890s, specializing in North African landscapes: Saharan scenes, caravans, marabouts and views of Algerian ports. Appointed official painter to the French Navy in 1910, he was awarded a Gold Medal at the 1937 Paris International Exhibition. He remains an important figure in Algerian Orientalist painting of the late XIXᵉ and early XXᵉ centuries.