The Parisian painter Pierre Nimier’s works on the art market are mainly Mediterranean oil paintings depicting beach scenes or, as here, a view of the New Mosque Jamma al-Jdid in Algiers. The mosque was built in 1660 and, unlike the majority of Malikites in North Africa, belonged to the Hanefite school of law. During the French colonial period in Algeria, the mosque was also called Mosquée de la Pêcherie due to its proximity to the coast, which means “Mosque of the Fisherman’s Wharf” in English and “Mosque of the Fishery” in German.