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Paul Delamain, born in Cuisy in 1821, orientalist painter: at his death, the Illustration devotes an article to him, where one can read, among others: "[...] Nobody like him painted the Arabs and the horse, even Eugene Fromentin, whom he seemed to imitate, and which he had in reality preceded. This Paul Delamain, [...], was a tall boy, lean, elegant, with the vague appearance of a military Don Quixote. [...] Who would believe that Paul Delamain, whose smooth paint, the gleaming rumps of Arabian horses, the plains of red sand were so finely painted, was in a way the first of the Impressionists? It's the truth though. " In his Parisian studio on rue Racine, he takes colored bladders, crushes them on the canvas and spreads them out with his thumb. Sometimes the result is pleasant, bizarre, unusual, sometimes it is disappointing, horrible. One day, his friend Auguste Marc tells him that nature and chance can not decide everything, and convinces him to take a teacher. Delamain enters Drolling's studio, where he learns drawing and composition. He will also have Leblanc as master. He began at the Salon in 1846. Among his paintings, the Bénézit quotes: - Arab leader and his gum on a trip, - A douar Ouled Nail-, - Homage, scene of Arab morals, - Abbrevoir in Algiers (sold 410 en April 4, 1894) -, - Anier arabic at the watering place (sold 190 francs in 1895) -, -Departure for hunting (sold 250 francs) -, etc. He died in Ornans, near Besançon, at his brother's house, the commander Delamain, former major at the 7th Chasseurs.