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Lot Essay
ETIENNE DINET STUDIED AT THE ACADéMIE JULIAN UNDER TONY ROBERT-FLEURY AND WILLIAM-ADOLPHE BOUGUEREAU. HE BEGAN TO EXHIBIT AT THE SALON IN 1882 WITH PORTRAITS AND RELIGIOUS SUBJECTS, UNTIL A TRIP TO ALGERIA IN 1884 INSTILLED IN HIM A LIFELONG FASCINATION AND ADMIRATION FOR THE PEOPLE AND THEIR CULTURE. FOR THE NEXT TWENTY YEARS HE DIVIDED HIS TIME BETWEEN FRANCE AND ALGERIA BEFORE FINALLY MOVING TO BOU-SAADA IN 1904.
IN 1913 HE EMBRACED ISLAM AND BECAME A MUSLIM, HOPING TO PROMOTE FURTHER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN HIS TWO PEOPLES AND EFFECT GREATER EQUALITY OF RIGHTS FOR ALGERIANS, A MATTER WITH WHICH HE WAS PREOCCUPIED FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE. IN 1929, WITH HIS ADOPTED MUSLIM NAME OF HADJ NASR ED DINE DINI, HE UNDERTOOK A HAJJ TO MECCA BUT DIED AT THE END OF THE YEAR BEFORE HE WAS ABLE TO RETURN TO HIS BELOVED ALGERIA.
IN 1913 HE EMBRACED ISLAM AND BECAME A MUSLIM, HOPING TO PROMOTE FURTHER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN HIS TWO PEOPLES AND EFFECT GREATER EQUALITY OF RIGHTS FOR ALGERIANS, A MATTER WITH WHICH HE WAS PREOCCUPIED FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE. IN 1929, WITH HIS ADOPTED MUSLIM NAME OF HADJ NASR ED DINE DINI, HE UNDERTOOK A HAJJ TO MECCA BUT DIED AT THE END OF THE YEAR BEFORE HE WAS ABLE TO RETURN TO HIS BELOVED ALGERIA.