Paul Jean Baptiste Lazerges was born in 1845. He was a pupil of his father Hippolyte Lazerges, himself a travelling painter who decided to settle permanently in Algeria. Paul Lazerges was also seduced by North Africa. He stayed there for several years, pushing exploration further, as far as the oases of the South (El Kantara, Biskra, Bou-Saâda). The poetically inspired works of Paul Jean Baptiste Lazerges show remarkable qualities in the description of light. His palette evolves in Kabylia, in the vicinity of El-Kantara and Biskra, and it is there that he takes his clear, sharp and luminous vision of the Orient.