Useum

Étienne Dinet

10 works held in 5 museums

French painter of Algeria, settled at Bou Saâda, 1861-1929

The Crescent, Étienne Dinet

The Crescent, before 1910.

Le croissant (museum title)

Étienne Dinet (French)

Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers, France

On the Terraces. Moonlight at Laghouat, Étienne Dinet

On the Terraces. Moonlight at Laghouat, 1897.

Sur les terrasses. Clair de lune à Laghouat (museum title)

Étienne Dinet (French), oil on canvas

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, France

The Spring of Hearts, Étienne Dinet

The Spring of Hearts, 1904.

Le Printemps des coeurs (museum title)

Étienne Dinet (French), oil on canvas

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, France

Washerwomen, Étienne Dinet

Washerwomen, 1895.

Laveuses (museum title)

Étienne Dinet (French), oil on canvas

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, France

The Swing, Étienne Dinet

The Swing, c. 1900.

La Balançoire (museum title)

Étienne Dinet (French), oil on canvas

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, France

Ouled Naïl, Étienne Dinet

Ouled Naïl

Ouled Naîl (museum title)

Étienne Dinet (French), oil on canvas

Musée d'Orsay (on deposit at the Musée d'Art de Toulon), France

By the Wadi, Étienne Dinet

By the Wadi, before 1899.

Au bord de l'Oued (museum title)

Étienne Dinet (French), oil on canvas

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Reims, France

Prayer on a Terrace at Bou Saâda, Étienne Dinet

Prayer on a Terrace at Bou Saâda

Prière sur une terrasse à Bou-Saada (museum title)

Étienne Dinet (French), oil on canvas

Archbishops' Palace Museum, Narbonne, France

Girls' Games at Laghouat, Étienne Dinet

Girls' Games at Laghouat, 1899.

Jeux de Fillettes à Laghouat (museum title)

Étienne Dinet (French), color lithograph

Cleveland Museum of Art, United States

Caravan at El Grara, near Ghardaïa, Étienne Dinet

Caravan at El Grara, near Ghardaïa

Caravane à El Grara, près de Gardaïa (museum title)

Étienne Dinet (French), oil on wood

Archbishops' Palace Museum, Narbonne, France

Works by Étienne Dinet (1861-1929), in the public domain, each linked to its record in the museum that holds it. A pupil of Bouguereau, Dinet discovered southern Algeria in 1884, settled at Bou Saâda in 1905 and converted to Islam as Nasreddine Dinet; he painted the Ouled Naïl people, their children's games, their moonlit terraces, their prayers. Only works that the museums attribute to him without reservation, and of which a freely reusable photograph exists, are included here: photographs by the Musées de Reims (public domain), by Cleveland (CC0) and by photographers named on the page of each work (Creative Commons). The titles are those of the museums, with their translation. Some paintings depict nudes.