Born 1821 in Beaune, Côte-d’Or, French painter Félix Ziem had a visit in 1841 to Italy, where he fell in love with the city of Venice, a place that would become the source for many of his works, and to which he returned annually until 1892.
Following a year-long trip to the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in 1857-58, Ziem began to include works with an Orientalist theme in his oeuvre. His landscapes included scenes from a variety of locations including Constantinople, Egypt, Martigues, Cagnes-sur-Mer and his native Burgundy. He was a commercially successful artist in his own lifetime.
Ziem died in 1911 in Paris, aged 90. In 1857, the government of France recognized his contribution to the art world by making him a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor, and an officer of the Legion in 1878. Here below is a collection of beautiful paintings by Félix Ziem in the 19th century.
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| A Gathering at Twilight |
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| A Gondola at the Jardin Francais, Venice |
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| An Oriental Port |
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| Boarding on the Quai des Esclavons |
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| Boarding on the Quai des Esclavons |
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| Constantinople at Sunset |
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| Constantinople at Sunset |
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| Constantinople |
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| Dutch Landscape |
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| Entrance to the Grand Canal, Venice |
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| Evening on San Giorgio |
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| Gondola and Trabucco, the Basin |
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| Gondola in front of the Grand Canal, Venice |
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| Gondolas in front of the Quai des Esclavons and the Pont de la Paille |
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| Gondolier at Esclavons Quay, Venice |
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| Harbor at Constantinople |
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| On the Quai des Esclavons, Venice |
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| Rescue - Castaway on a Raft |
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| San Giorgio |
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| San Simeone Piccolo beyond the Grand Canal, Venice |
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| Sunset in Damanhour |
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| The Calm of the Evening |
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| The Cannon Shot |
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| The Feast of the Assumption in Venice |
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| The French Garden, Venice |
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| The French Garden, Venice |
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| The French Garden, Venice |
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| The Golden Horn, Constantinople |
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| The Grand Canal, Venice |
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| The Market |
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| The Mihrisah Fountain |
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| The Queen of the Adriatic |
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| Venice, the Bacino di San Marco with Fishing Boats |
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| View of Istanbul and the Bosporus |
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| View of Istanbul |
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| View of Istanbul |
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