Antoine Gianelli 1896-1983 Former Orientalist Military Portrait Painting Morocco

  
Antoine Marius Gianelli is a French painter-traveler, of Corsican origin, born in Marseille on August 28, 1896, and died in the same city on March 23, 1983. In Marseille, he frequented the "Péano painters," a new bohemian generation that settled in Arcenaulx, the neighborhood of his beginnings, which included among others Pierre Ambrogiani, Antoine Ferrari, Hubert Aicardi, Arsène Sari, Jo Berto, René Seyssaud, Auguste Chabaud, Louis Toncini, François Diana, and Antoine Serra. Portrait of a Moroccan soldier. (In slang, the term chleuh is a nickname applied to soldiers of the territorial troops in Morocco during World War I).

46 x 37.5 cm.