Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ was a 19th century French painter and poet who specialized in Orientalist works. He traveled extensively in the Arab world while working for the French government, producing paintings and sketches that depicted Muslim societies. Two of his most famous works were "The Opium Smoker" and "The Evening Prayer at Tangiers," a realistic oil painting showing Moroccans participating in religious rituals and traditional clothing with varied coloring from bright in the foreground to paler in the background.

1. Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte
du Nouÿ
By Khalil Bourjila
4ºA E.S.O.

2. BIOGRAPHY
• Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ was a
French painter, poet and orientalist, born in
1842 in Paris.
• He started working for the Government when
he was only 24.
• He travelled all around the Arab World, where
he did some beautiful paintings of the Muslim
society.

3. He first arrived to
Morocco in the late
1890s.
He drew many
sketches of Moroccan
people, and he also did
some paintings, like
“The Opium Smoker”,
or “The Evening
Prayer at Tangiers”.
The Opium Smoker (1889)

4. The Evening Prayer at Tangiers
• Originally called
“La prière du soir
à Tanger”, it’s a
realistic 92x52 cm
oil painting.
• It represents the
religiosity of
Moroccans, as
well as their
traditional clothes.

5. • The colours of
the painting are
bright in the front
(specially in the
man’s clothes),
and paler in the
back (the Spanish
shore, and the
houses).

6. Cheerio!