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Alphonse-Étienne Dinet, Man in a Large Hat
🕑 Added 2023-02-21 11:50:41 +0000 UTCAnother painting I've recently learned about... I love when this happens! So many brilliant things going on in this picture it is hard to count. A few that are close to my heart are color harmony and brushwork, but beyond that is the subtly of values of ambient light vs. direct light. This is extremely hard to execute, some others are the bold choice of composition. It may look funny at first glance but if you were in the excruciating heat, this is a good idea;) His sincere expression and humanity transcends a picture and captures the masterful qualities of a good painting.
This painting will be on display March 5 - May 28th at the Denver Art Museum.
Alphonse-Étienne Dinet, Man in a Large Hat (Homme au Grand Chapeau), 1901. Oil paint on canvas; 15¼ × 10½ in. (38.7 × 26.7 cm). Musée d'Orsay and Cité nationale de l'histoire et de l'immigration, Paris: MAAO 9720, LUX 527. © RMN-Grand Palais/Art Resource, NY. Photograph by Daniel Arnaudet
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Wow , thank you. So he studied with Bouguereau!!!!
Michael Klein
I found this about him, "Nasreddine Dinet (born as Alphonse-Étienne Dinet on 28 March 1861 – 24 December 1929, Paris) was a French orientalist painter. Dinet was born the son of a prominent French judge. In 1865 his sister Jeanne, who would be his biographer, was born. From 1871, he studied at the Lycee Henry IV, where the future president Alexandre Millerand was also among the students. Upon graduation in 1881 he enrolled in the Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts and entered the studio of Victor Galland. The following year he studied under William Bouguereau and Tony Robert-Fleury at the Académie Julian. He also exhibited for the first time at the Salon des artistes francais. Dinet made his first trip to Bou Saada by the Ouled Naïl Range in southern Algeria in 1884, with a team of entomologists. The following year he made a second trip on a government scholarship, this time to Laghouat. At that time he painted his first two Algerian pictures: les Terrasses de Laghouat and l’Oued M’Sila apres l’orage."
I wonder where this was painted? Morocco perhaps or Algiers? I'm always fascinated by orientalist paintings and the stories of the adventurist painters who travelled to what was then called "The Orient"
