PD Image: The White Slave (L’Esclave blanche), a 1888 oil on canvas painting by French painter Jean Lecomte du Noüy (1842-1923), size 146 cm x 118 cm (57.48 in x 46.46 in), located at Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nantes, France.
Jean Lecomte du Nouy
Jean Lecomte du Nouy (alternatively known as Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouy, Lecomte du Noüy, and Jules Jean Antoine, born in Paris on June 10, 1842 and died in Paris on February 19, 1923) was an Orientalist French painter and sculptor. He was Charles Gleyre's and Jean-Léon Gérôme's pupil. In 1875 Jean Lecomte du Nouy traveled widely between Greece and Turkey and then again in Egypt and Romania.
He was born as the son of Jacques Théodore Jules Lecomte du Nouy (1885-1961), who was an architect, and archaeologist and Michel Lecomte du Nouy Alexandrine Félicité. He was a pupil of Charles Gleyre (1806-1874), Émile Signol (1804-1892) and Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904). He debuted at the Paris Salon of 1863, where he exhibited regularly every year.
Raised as a Catholic, in 1876 he married the granddaughter of Senator Adolphe Cremieux, Valentine Peigné-Cremieux, a Jewish woman who died a few months later. Afterwards, late in life he married the young Marie Térésa Fisanne.
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