In ordinary life he was a man of fun and companionship, jokes and humor for him were an integral part. However, sometimes Kosobukhin was also joked about, as cartoonist Valentin Druzhinin told in his interview.

“A drawing created only digitally is dead, the hand of the artist is important too. Sometimes I paint in oil, but unfortunately there is not enough time for all that.”

Oriental exoticism in all its glory: slave traders bring slave girls to two noble Oriental bayas, who sit calmly, with the consciousness of their own superiority, on a carpet and smoke hookah. The slave trader has already undressed one of them in order to show the goods in all their glory....

She dared to challenge the prim and conservative society of the 18th century. She had unmistakably grasped the main secret of success and was booked for posing months in advance.

In just 40 years of his creative activity, he created a lot of impressive drawings, and the collection of Russian fairy tales with illustrations is successfully reprinted to this day.

Lecomte du Nouy studied under the academicians Charles Gleyre, Emile Signol and Jean-Léon Gérôme, who belonged to the Neo-Greek school, and all his life followed their ideas about art. But gradually he turned to Orientalism, aided by a visit to Egypt.