spirit, accompanied or caused by physical enfeeblement. But it must be observed that Fromentin's paintings show only one side of a genius that was perhaps even more felicitously expressed in literature, though with less profusion. Dominique, first published in the Revue des deux mondes in 1862, and dedicated to George Sand, is remarkable among the fiction of the century for delicate and imaginative observation and for emotional earnestness. Fromentin's other literary works are Visites artistiques (1852); Simples Pèlerinages (1856); Un été dans le Sahara (1857); Une année dans le Sahel'' (1858). In 1876 he was an unsuccessful candidate for the Academy. He died suddenly at La Rochelle on 27 August 1876. See also List of Orientalist artists Orientalism References Attribution: External links Encyclopædia Britannica www.eugenefromentin.org Works by Eugène Fromentin 19th-century French painters French male painters 1820 births 1876 deaths French male writers Orientalist painters 19th-century French male artists