This is a fine example of Guillaume Régamey art he devoted almost entirely to the depiction of horses and horsemen. This painting shows three Algerian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/spahis" class="extiw" title="en:spahis">Spahis</a> cavaliers descending a declivity in the desert and a man on foot driving two laden mules. The bright light and subject matter is characteristic of the Orientalist movement, a 19th-century phenomenon, which pervaded French art by combining elements of Romanticism (such as the attraction to distant and Middle East settings) and Realism in the objective rendering of the figures.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3120168" class="extiw" title="d:Q3120168"><span title="French painter (1837-1875)">Guillaume Urban Régamey</span></a>
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