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Georges Clairin trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and became known for grand historical paintings, Symbolist themes, and portraits. Le Carnage may draw from extravaganzas he witnessed in Morocco that involved hundreds of Arab horsemen in mock equestrian battles. This painting was among several of his large compositions of anecdotal dreamscapes set in exotic surroundings that have been called the \"Orient of the Romantics.\" Clairin’s memories of traveling in Italy, Spain, Algeria, and Egypt, as well as his experience in the Franco-Prussian war (1870–71), provided him with images for his paintings.

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