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In the same year he exhibited two paintings at the Salon, this work and A Ravine (Nelson Atkins Museum, Kansas). Both pictures were given the title Algeria Remembered. The concept of memory was integral to Fromentin’s artistic ideas and practice. Falcon Hunt is a reworking of an earlier picture, Heron Hunt (1865; Musée Condé, Chantilly). It depicts a group of Algerian noblemen on horseback engaging in a hunt. Fromentin admired the work of seventeenth-century Dutch artists and in particular that of Jacob van Ruisdael. The prominence given to the vast sky in this composition shows the influence of Van Ruisdael’s landscapes.
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Exposition des oeuvres de Eugène Fromentin, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1877, no.6
Centenaire de la Conquête d' Algérie, Petit Palais, Paris, 1930, no.219
Exhibition of the Chester Beatty Collection, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, 1950
The East: Imagined, Experienced, Remembered. Orientalist Nineteenth Century Painting, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, 1988
La Peinture Francais du XIXe siècle. Collection Chester Beatty de la Galerie National d'Irlande, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Calais; Musée des Beaux-Arts, Quimper; Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, 1989
French 19th and 20th Century Paintings from the National Gallery of Ireland: Corot to Picasso, Daimaru Museum, Tokyo, 5 September-17 September 1996; Daimaru Museum, Kyoto, 10 October-22 October 1996; Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi, 26 October-2 December 1996; Daimaru Museum, Umeda,Osaka, 22 January-9 February 1997; Aomori Municpal Gallery of Art, Aomori, 2 April-20 April 1997
Chester Beatty: The Paintings, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 7 September 2012 - 31 August 2013; The Hunt Museum, Limerick, 1 February - 30 March 2014