Étienne Dinet

Biography

Étienne Dinet born March 28, 1861 in Paris, city where he died December 24, 1929, is a French painter and lithographer. He is one of the major representatives of the orientalist movement. Born into a bourgeois Parisian family, he studied at the Lycée Henri IV before joining the Paris School of Fine Arts in 1881 in the studio of the painter Pierre-Victor Galland. The young artist subsequently joined the Académie Julian. Dinet won a medal in 1884 at the Salon des Arts Plastiques at the Palais de l’Industrie as well as a scholarship. Little interested in the impressionist revolution which was t... Show more

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