Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ (Paris

Paris

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, 1842 June 10- Paris

Paris

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,1923 February 19) was an orientalist

Orientalism

Orientalism is a term used for the imitation or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers and artists, as well as having other meanings...

  French painter and sculptor. He was Charles Gleyre's and Jean-Léon Gérôme

Jean-Léon Gérôme

Jean-Léon Gérôme was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as Academicism. The range of his oeuvre included historical painting, Greek mythology, Orientalism, portraits and other subjects, bringing the Academic painting tradition to an artistic climax.-Life:Jean-Léon Gérôme was born...

's pupil. A Parisian street was named after him in 1932.

Selected paintings

• 1864 : Le Guet-à-pens
• 1866 : Invocation de Neptune
• 1869 : Le souper de Beaucaire
• 1870 : Démosthène s'exerçant à la parole
• 1871 : Chrétiennes au tombeau de la Vierge
• 1875 : Judith
• 1878 : Adolphe Crémieux
• 1884 : Le Marabout prophète
• 1888 : L'esclave blanche (The White Slave)
• 1889 : Le samedi au quartier juif
• 1890 : Le dimanche à Venise
• 1899 : Portrait du Roi et de la Reine de Roumanie
• 1902 : Mademoiselle de Maupin
• 1904 : La Sorcière
• 1904 : Rêve d'Orient
• 1905 : La Péri et le Poète
• 1913 : La dernière ronde
• 1919 : Etude pour la Victoire

Source

Literature:

Roger Diederen, "From Homer to the harem: The art of Jean Lecomte du Nouÿ" (New York: Dahesh Museum of Art, 2004) incl. catalogue raisonné.

External links

• Artcyclopedia entry for Jean-Jules
• OrientalistArt Page 6, includes The White Slave and Minaret in Algiers
• Antoine LECOMTE DU NOÜY 1842 - 1923 Art biography and chronology (French)