Étienne Dinet

Étienne Dinet born March 28, 1861 in Paris, city where he died December 24, 1929, is a French painter and lithographer. He is one of the major representatives of the orientalist movement. Born into a bourgeois Parisian family, he studied at the Lycée Henri IV before joining the Paris School of Fine Arts in 1881 in the studio of the painter Pierre-Victor Galland. The young artist subsequently joined the Académie Julian. Dinet won a medal in 1884 at the Salon des Arts Plastiques at the Palais de l’Industrie as well as a scholarship. Little interested in the impressionist revolution which was taking place at the time, with his scholarship obtained in 1884, Dinet made his first trip to the south of Algeria, in the company of a team of entomologists, in the region of Bou-Saâda, Naili culture leaves a deep impression on him, he will return there many times. The following year, a second Algerian trip took him to Laghouat and Mzab. He painted his first two paintings: On the terraces of Lagho...