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ALPHONSE-ETIENNE DINET
(28.3.1861-20.12.1929)
"Kastagnietten Tänzerin"
Öl auf Leinwand,
56x38cm
signed and inscribed
'E. Dinet/-Alger-'


Etienne Dinet studied at the Académie Julian under T. Robert-Fleury and W.A. Bouguereau. He began to exhibit at the Salon in 1882 with portraits and religious subjects, until a trip to Algeria in 1884 instilled in him a lifelong fascination and admiration for the Algerian people and their culture. For the next twenty years he divided his time between France and Algeria before finally moving to Bou-Saada in 1904.