LOUIS-ETIENNE DAUPHIN (1885-1926) Orientalist View Color lithograph, artist's proof Signed lower right in pencil: Louis Dauphin Marked lower left in pencil: Épreuve d'artiste Height 39 cm - Width 55 cm when viewed Louis Dauphin is the son of Eugène Dauphin, official painter to the French Navy. Louis Dauphin participated in the Exposition spéciale des Artistes mobilisés during the First World War, as well as in the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts de Paris. His paintings evoke his travels in the Mediterranean: Greece, Italy, Spain, Northern France and Provence.