Jacques Carrey was a French painter and draughtsman, student of Charles Le Brun. In 1673, he accompanied marquis de Nointel on his tours, which lasted for seventeen months. Between 1670 and 1679, he made approximately 500 drawings and paintings, capturing the daily life in Greece, Asia Minor and Palestine, which were under Ottoman rule during that period. Several of those are found in the Acropolis Museum, but most of them are at the Louvre.