Etienne Dinet
(France 1861–1929)
- Title
- The snake charmer
- Alternative title:
- Le charmeur de viperes
- Year
- 1889
- Media category
- Painting
- Materials used
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
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176.5 x 180.4cm
- Signature & date
- Signed and dated l.l., yellow oil "E. DINET / ...1889".
- Credit
- Purchased 1890
- Accession number
- 799
- Location
- 19th & 20th c European art
- Further information
Another of the prolofic technicians of late nineteenth-century art, Dinet was a French-born painter-illustrator, with a penchant for attention-seeking titles and striking technical effects are exploited in 'The snake charmer', an orientalist painting that doubles as a touristic postcard. Exotic in its geo-graphical setting and sensational in its subject matter, it further trades on scale as a strategy to arrest the viewer. The figures are large and brilliantly coloured, seeming to spill into the gallery space. The charmer himself is consciously that, with a toothy smile and 'authentic' costume. Also noteworthy is the treatment of bright sunlight which Dinet translates into broad applications of impasto paint with practised, not to say formulaic, ease. No real attempt is made to create a composition. Rather, the cropped casualness of a photograph is suggested.
AGNSW Handbook, 1999.
- Provenance (1)
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Paris Salon (France), Paris/France, Purchased by the AGNSW from the Paris Salon 1890
- Bibliography (29)
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Bruce James (Australia) (Author), Edmund Capon (England; Australia, b.1940) (Director), Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, Domain, 1999, 50 (colour illus.).
Robert Dessaix (Author), (and so forth), Sydney, 1998, (colour illus.). The image appears between pages 232 and 233.
'The Romance of Arabia - Orientalism - Delacroix to Klee' by Roger Benjamin, pg. 14-17., Look Oct 1997, Oct 1997, 15 (colour illus.), 16.
Roger Benjamin (Australia, b.1957) (Author), Ursula Prunster (Australia) (Author), Lynne Thornton (Author), Mounira Khemir (Author), Orientalism - Delacroix to Klee, Domain, 1997, 20, 41-43, 44 (colour illus.), 45, 129 (colour illus.), 129-30.
'Scenes from the Kaskah' by Janet Hawley, pg. 24-30., Good Weekend 1997, 1997, 27, 28 (colour illus.).
Koudir Benchikou (Author), La vie et l'oeuvre de Etienne Dinet, Paris, 1991. cat.no. 144
Annabel Davie (Editor), Art Gallery of New South Wales Handbook, Domain, 1988, 48.
'Contrasting lights', pg.135-154., Images in opposition: Australian landscape painting 1801-1890 1985, 1985, 149.
Anna Waldmann (Australia) (Author), Salon and Academie: the charm of tradition, Domain, 1984, (illus.). no catalogue numbers
'Victorian favourites: a conversation - Elwyn Lynn and Lloyd Rees', pg. 49-56., Art and Australia (Vol. 22, No. 1) Spring 1984, Spring 1984, 49, 52, 55.
Koudir Benchikou (Author), Catalogue del l'oeuvre de Dinet, 1984, 194. cat.no. 144
Lynne Thornton (Author), The Orientalists: painter travellers, 1983.
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874), An exhibition of French art, Sydney, 1944. cat.no. 101
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Continental Art, Sydney, 1940. cat.no. 1
Jeanne Dinet Rollince (Author), La vie de E. Dinet, 1938, 62.
'The Art of Arthur Streeton', pg. 12., Art and Australia 1919, 1919, 12.
L'Art et les artistes 1909-1910, 1909-1910, 163-172.
National Art Gallery of New South Wales (Australia, estab. 1874) (Author), Catalogue of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales 1906, Sydney, 1906, (illus.). cat.no. 77
Le Salon de 1890 1890, 1890, 84 (illus.).
Le Temps 02 Jul 1890, 02 Jul 1890.
L'art francais 28 Jun 1890, 28 Jun 1890. cat.no. 166 (repr. en glyptographie)
Le monde illustre 17 May 1890, 17 May 1890, 322.
Brelaus de salons 1890, 1890, 225.
Revue francaise et samedi réunis 1890, 1890, 97.
L'artiste 1890, 1890, 85.
Paris Salon 1890, 1890, 95 (illus.).
Figaro 1890, 1890, (illus.).
Le Salon de 1890 1890, 1890, 86 (illus.).
Revue des deux mondes, vil 3 1890, 1890, 925.
- Exhibition history (10)
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Paris Salon, 1890, Paris Salon, 1890–1890.
Salon de 1890, Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, 1890–1890.
Loan collections of oil paintings, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1894–1894.
Loan collections of oil paintings, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1894–1894.
Loan collections of oil paintings, National Gallery of Victoria [Swanston Street], Sep 1894–Sep 1894.
Exhibition of Continental Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Nov 1940–Dec 1940.
An exhibition of French art at the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 04 Oct 1944–31 Oct 1944.
Salon and Academie: the charm of tradition, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 15 Nov 1984–May 1985.
Orientalism - Delacroix to Klee, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Dec 1997–22 Feb 1998.
Orientalism - Delacroix to Klee, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, 20 Mar 1998–07 Jun 1998.
