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Orientalist portrait on canvas, signed lower right by Constantin Font, winner of the Prix de Rome in 1921.
A beautiful figurative composition depicting a man in profile, dressed in traditional oriental attire, wearing a turban in ochre and red tones and draped in a long purple robe, in a mountain setting at sunset.
A student of Fernand Cormon at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, he enjoyed a particularly distinguished career:
1910: First honorable mention at the Salon.
1921: Silver medal at the Salon des Artistes Français and winner of the Prix de Rome.
1922: Gold medal at the Salon des Artistes Français.
1926: Member of the Institut de France.
1935: Appointed Knight of the Legion of Honor.
Collected in several museums.
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