Jean Lecomte Du Nouy Oil on panel. 12 x 8.25 in. (30.5 x 22 cm). Private collection. Courtesy Sotheby's. The Opium Smoker French Painter and Sculptor, 1842-1923,was an orientalist French painter and sculptor. He was Charles Gleyre's and Jean-Leon G??rome's pupil. A Paris street was named after him in 1932.