Nearly a century after his death, the French orientalist painter Etienne Dinet has been finding new ... scenes of children playing, men in prayer, and women dancing in their traditional costumes ...

Alphonse-Étienne Dinet, born in France on March 28, 1861, was a painter working in the Orientalist style popular during his time. Dinet began making his Modernist, ethnographic paintings in 1881 at ...

He also learned Arabic and eventually converted to Islam. Dinet was dedicated to painting the traditions and way of life of the people who lived in the Algerian desert towns and one such picture ...