The article analyses the orientalist work of Gustave Guillaumet, by means of exhibition of the world similar to that which was implemented in the great nineteenth-century exhibitions. The journalist-painter tends to construct a labyrinthine space, in which the North African reality is exhibited according to realistic aesthetic codes, but with fundamentally colonialist ideological objectives. The narration of the Great 1867 Exposition is inscribed in this view. To this, Guillaumet dedicated one of his articles originally published in the Nouvelle revue and then merged into the posthumous volume, Tableaux algériens (1888).
