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Étienne Dinet Prints
About Étienne Dinet
Étienne Dinet (1861–1929) was a French painter, born Alphonse-Étienne Dinet in Paris, where he also died. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and at the Académie Julian under William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury. In 1884 he made his first trip to Bou Saâda, an oasis town in Algeria, and from 1903 he spent most of each year there.
Étienne Dinet painted the people and landscapes of southern Algeria, the place he came to know best. In 1913 he formally converted to Islam, taking the name Nasreddine Dinet. With his friend Sliman ben Ibrahim he wrote and illustrated books, including a life of the Prophet Muhammad (1918). In 1929 he made the pilgrimage to Mecca, and he died in Paris later that year. He was buried in Bou Saâda, where the Nasreddine Dinet Museum is devoted to him; the Musée d'Orsay in Paris also holds his paintings.
Étienne Dinet prints: reproductions of paintings of southern Algeria by the French painter Étienne Dinet, made between 1888 and the early 20th century. The collection includes The Snake Charmer (1889), Repos à l'ombre, Bou Saâda (1888), Laveuses (1895), Jeux de fillettes à Laghouat (1899) and Le Printemps des coeurs (1904).
This selection focuses on daily life in and around Bou Saâda and Laghouat: girls playing and swinging, women washing clothes, a crowd watching a snake charmer, and people returning from a festival by moonlight. The paintings use strong desert sunlight, warm ochres and pinks, and close attention to faces and movement.
The warm, sunlit colours suit living rooms, bedrooms and dining rooms, and the scenes of children playing also suit family spaces. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with low-glare acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
