Albert Louis Aublet was a French painter. Trained in the workshops of Claudius Jacquand and Jean-Léon Gérôme , he exhibited successfully at the Salon in 1873, obtaining an honorable mention in 1879 and a medal of 3rd class in 1880. His international recognition is equally brilliant: he harvests several awards at international events, including a gold medal at the 1889 World Fair . He is decorated with the Legion of Honor in 1890. From his first trip in 1881, his discovery of the Orient has a strong influence on his artistic inspiration. His visit to Constantinople gave an orientalist direction to his paintings. The “Turkish woman in the baths” was a great success and contributed to his notoriety. He was the president of the Artists Society of Tunis . He would have been the model of M. Biche, familiar with Madame Verdurin’s salon, in the literary fresco of Marcel Proust in Search of Lost Time . He was a professor at the Beaux-Arts de Paris . His son was the architect Louis Aublet (1901-1980) who married Marie-Germaine Ablett, daughter of the painter William Ablett , in 1931.