JOHN-LEWIS SHONBORN (1852- 1931) (attributed to)
Lalla Khedidja (2,308 m -7,572 ft)
Algeria (Kabylie)
Lalla Khedidja (2,308 m -7,572 ft) in the Jurjura Range is the highest summit of the Tell Atlas, a mountain chain over 1,500 km (932 mi) in length, belonging to the Atlas mountain ranges in North Africa, stretching from Morocco, to Tunisia through Algeria. The ranges of this system have average elevations of about 1,500 m (4,900 ft) and form a natural barrier between the Mediterranean and the Sahara. Several large cities such as the Algerian capital, Algiers and Oran lie at the base of the Tell Atlas. The Algerian city Constantine lies 80 km inland and directly in the mountains at 650 meters in elevation. A number of smaller towns and villages are situated within the Tell; for example, Chiffa is nestled within the Chiffa gorge.
The Tell Atlas runs parallel to the Mediterranean coast. Together with the Saharan Atlas to the south it forms the northernmost of two more or less parallel ranges which approach one another towards the east, remaining quite distinct from one another in Western Algeria and merging in Eastern Algeria. At the western end, it ends at the Rif and Middle Atlas ranges in Morocco. The Tell Atlas are also a distinct physiographic section of the larger Atlas Mountains province, which in turn is part of the larger African Alpine System physiographic division. The Tell Atlas and the Saharan Atlas form two natural barriers, the first against the Mediterranean and the second against the Sahara. Between them lies the valley of the Chelif and various lesser rivers.
The painter
Born from Hungarian parents who settled while still very young in American Middle-West, John-Lewis Schonborn studied horses in the family farm, from his childhood. He stays in Paris in the studio of the painter Léon Bonnat, then specializes in equestrian paintings very fashionable at that time, under the leadership of Géricault. He participated in a mission in Tunisia and went to Kairouan. During this stay, he painted many landscapes of Algeria and Kabylia, on all kinds of supports he could find (oil on cardboard or on paper, watercolour, oil on fabric or on wood ...).
He is one of the American orientalist painters.
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