Maxime Noiré is a painter orientalist born with Guiguelange in 1861 and died in Algiers in 1927.

It went to Algeria for health reasons and settled, about 1882, in Algiers, where it started to acquire notoriety. Travelling in the Algerian South, where he discovered the Oasis and the Aurès and after having had a workshop in Algiers with the Expense-Small valley, close to Bab El-Oued, he ends up settling with Bou-Saâda of which he made a station with the mode.

Official painter of the Navy and the Colonies, it took part in the promotion of the Villa Abd-el-Hair and exposed to the Living room of the French Artists. Isabelle Eberhardt dedicated the Pleurs of almond trees to Maxime Noiré, “the painter of the horizons on fire and the almond trees in tears”.

Among known works of Maxime Noiré, Seen on Bay of Algiers since Bouzaréa , Seen Expense-Small valley close to Bab-el-Wadi , Seen of Tipaza and so much of remarkable panoramas gorged with sun of the South of Algeria, such as sights of Bou Saada, or Abiod wadi in Aurès.