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Louis-Jules DUMOULINGreat Buddha of Kamakura, Japan1890s
1890s
$7,774.39
£5,772.92
€6,500
CA$10,680.85
A$11,612.23
CHF 6,156.82
MX$139,201.23
NOK 78,250.02
SEK 71,687.65
DKK 49,550.85
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Oil on canvas
62,8 x 48 cm (88,5 x 73,8 cm with frame)
= 24.7 × 18.9 in (34.8 × 29.1 in with frame)
Signed lower left
Louis Dumoulin, a traveling painter and Orientalist, drew inspiration from his travels in Asia to compose works imbued with exoticism and spirituality. This painting depicts the famous Great Buddha of Kamakura, an iconic monument of medieval Japan, erected outdoors in the 13th century. The monumental, hieratic seated figure dominates a landscape of pine trees and mountains bathed in twilight, lending the scene a mystical and contemplative atmosphere.
The pictorial treatment combines impressionistic accents in the skies and foliage with an orderly, almost sacred composition centered on the statue. A tiny human silhouette at the bottom of the stairs emphasizes the Buddha's immensity and symbolic power. Here, Dumoulin succeeds in conveying, beyond simple description, a true meditation on Eastern spirituality.
This painting is part of a series of works that Dumoulin exhibited at the Georges Petit gallery in 1889, during a landmark exhibition that introduced the Parisian public to his impressions of Japan. It was one of the defining moments of his career, when he won over critics and collectors with his vision of an idealized Orient, both documentary and poetic. This painting perfectly illustrates this approach, combining an ethnographic gaze with artistic sensitivity.
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