Original works of art

Decamps was a painter of landscape, genre, animal and oriental scenes of the French Romantic School. He studied with Etienne Bouhot (1816) and Pujol (1817), but rejected their academicism when he produced a number of small landscapes from nature which were well-received.

Decamps' work is characterized by a soft, warm palette and many of his paintings are filled with a diffused, atmospheric light. His work was first exhibited at The Salon in 1827 and showed some sixty paintings at the 1855 Exposition Universelle, the same one to which Courbet's paintings were refused.