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  • De Dreux reached the height of his fashionable success during the reigns of Louis-Philippe and Napoleon III, and even won a commission from Queen Victoria, whom.
  • Alfred De Dreux (1810 - 1860) was active/lived in France.
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    As a youth, Alfred De Dreux was taken by his uncle, the painter Pierre-Joseph Dedreux-Dorcy, on frequent visits to the studio of his friend Théodore Géricault. The important and formative influence of Géricault on the ung De Dreux can be seen not only in the Romantic nature of his early paintings, such as the Nègre à cheval in the Vaudoyer collection, but also his lifelong fascination with equestrian subjects. After studying with Léon Cogniet, De Dreux exhibited two paintings – a Cheval sautant un fossé and an Intérieur d'écurie - at the Salon of 1831, to much acclaim. In 1833 he was commissioned to paint an equestrian portrait of the Duc d'Orléans, and by the following year was already being described by one critic as, tillsammans with Carle Vernet, ‘le meilleur peintre de chevaux de l’époque romantique.’ In 1840 he began a series of paintings entitled Portraits de chevaux, which included several depictions of horses owned by the Duc d'Orléans.

    Alfred De Dreux’s depictions of hors

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    Throughout most of history, horses said the same thing about their owners as cars do today.

    They were symbols of power and status. You had to "be somebody" to own a horse. Just like today, fancy, fast or powerful horses were a status symbol. And if you had one, you wanted to flaunt it!

    From the time when prehistoric people first painted images of horses on cave walls, horses have been the ultimate symbol of speed and power so it's not surprising that there are no shortages of equestrian images from all eras, and I'm interested in all of them!

    Today, I'm sharing some by Alfred DeDreux, a French painter born in 1810. inom don't know exactly how many paintings he did during his lifetime, however, an internet search for images by DeDreux will return hundreds of examples of his work and I love his horses! At least, inom love them when they're standing or at walk. Just look at them! When you look at the examples of his work

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    For Thursday Art Day we re-visit ALFRED DE DREUX.

    For Thursday Art Day we re-visit ALFRED DE DREUX.

    Alfred-de-Dreaux -Etalon Arabe

    I blogged some time ago about ALFRED DE DREUX but I simply adore his work, hence the revisit and maybe again next week. Today I’m featuring some of his grey horses, next week some of his others. The more I see of Alfred de Dreux’s art the more I feel he would have to be one of the finest Romantic painters of thoroughbred horses, including the purebred Arabian. I have read that De Dreux painted portraits of the Duc d’Orléans’s horses and many racing scenes, but I think some of his best works are those, which show horses galloping or moving free. He has the ability to depict motion even if the horse is being ridden sedately by a lady riding side-saddle or a groom holding an Arabian poised to be mounted and ridden into the desert. There’s a marvellous elegance and an emphasis on the noble nature of the horse.

    Alfred-de-Dreaux – A grey