Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park

On the Nile
c 1878
By Charles T. Frère

Frederick and Julia Billings acquired three Egyptian scenes by Charles Théodore Frère, a French landscape and genre painter who studied under Cogniet and Roqueplan, and first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1834. He visited Algeria in 1837, and began painting the Near Eastern exotic scenes for which he became best known. In subsequent years he traveled widely around the Mediterranean, visiting Malta and Greece, spending a year and a half in Constantinople, touring Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. His paintings from those travels began to appear in the Salons of 1855 and later.

Oil, canvas. 39x76 cm
Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, MABI 3931



On the Nile c 1878 By Charles T. Frère Frederick and Julia Billings acquired three Egyptian scenes by Charles Théodore Frère, a French landscape and genre painter who studied under Cogniet and Roqueplan, and first exhibited at the Paris Salon of 1834. He visited Algeria in 1837, and began painting the Near Eastern exotic scenes for which he became best known. In subsequent years he traveled widely around the Mediterranean, visiting Malta and Greece, spending a year and a half in Constantinople, touring Syria, Palestine, and Egypt. His paintings from those travels began to appear in the Salons of 1855 and later. Oil, canvas. 39x76 cm Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park, MABI 3931
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