Original orientalist painting by Laroche

Original antique orientalist watercolour painting Arabian scene. Signed Jean Laroche in wooden frame and under glass. This style of painting reflects the increased interest in all things Oriental especially the near East with its implied romance of the Arabian world. The shining white city in the background with its mosques, the vast sand dunes and the Arabs resting with their camels., Jean Laroche was a French artist who travelled to the orient in the late 19th early 20th century and produced many remarkable watercolour works around Cairo and along the shores of the Nile.