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Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ Prints
About Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ was a French painter and sculptor, born in 1842 and died in 1923. He came from a noble family of Piedmontese origin. In 1861 he entered the studio of Charles Gleyre, studied briefly with Émile Signol in 1863, and joined the studio of Jean-Léon Gérôme in 1864. He worked in the academic tradition and is counted among the French Orientalists. He travelled to Egypt with the painter Félix Clément in 1865, toured Greece, Egypt and Turkey in 1875, and in the late 1890s spent several years in Romania painting portraits of the royal family.
Lecomte du Nouÿ painted classical, biblical and historical subjects, Orientalist scenes and many portraits. He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1863. Key works include The Invocation of Neptune (1866), in the Palais des Beaux-Arts, Lille, A Eunuch's Dream (1874), in the Cleveland Museum of Art, and The White Slave (1888), in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes. The Dahesh Museum of Art in New York also holds his work.
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ prints: reproductions of the French academic painter's Orientalist paintings of Cairo and the Near East. Works in the collection include A Eunuch's Dream (1874), A Doorkeeper Smoking in Cairo (1876), The Harem's Gate, Souvenir of Cairo (1876), The Sentinel (1877), The Citrus Seller (1878) and Rêve d'Orient (1904).
Our selection focuses on single figures in doorways, gateways and interiors, painted after his visits to Egypt. The works share a smooth academic finish, careful detail in tiles, textiles and stonework, and warm, low light.
The single-figure scenes suit hallways, studies and bedrooms, and pairs such as The Sentinel and A Doorkeeper Smoking in Cairo work hung side by side. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
