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Marie Adrien Persac Original Watercolor, Clifty Creek Canyon, Indiana

PERSAC, Marie Adrien (1823-1873). [Clifty Creek Canyon, Indiana]. Gouache on paper. Signed lower right: "A. Persac" Insribed: "Etas Unis". 9 1/4" x 5 3/4" sheet, 12 1/2" x 9" framed. Provenance: Private Collection, France (acquired directly from the artists). Thence by descent to the present owner. Marie Adrien Persac (1823-1873) was a photographer, architect, artist, and civil engineer. Born in Lyons, France, he came to the United States to hunt buffalo and settled in Indiana to cultivate apple orchards. It's not clear what brought Adrien down south to Louisiana. Letters with his marriage proposal show him to be a highly educated Frenchman. His wife was just 16 when they married. She lived on the Daigre Plantation, which Adrien later immortalized when he painted. They started their married life in Baton Rouge and later moved to New Orleans. The couple had three sons: Marie Adrien Edouard, Octave Joseph, and Alfred. Persac had a background in engineering and drew property maps for the Notarial Archives in New Orleans. He was also an accomplished artist and lithographer. In the late 1850s and early 1860s, Persac made some topographical gouache drawings of plantation houses in Louisiana on commission or, reportedly, as barter for room and board. He also briefly operated a photographic studio in the 1850s with William G. Vail. In 1869, he founded his own Academy of Drawing and Painting, where Persac taught portraiture and landscape painting in oil and watercolors. He died in Manchac, Louisiana.

Marie Adrien Persac Original Watercolor, Big Cliffy Creek meeting the Ohio River, Indiana

PERSAC, Marie Adrien (1823-1873). [Big Cliffy Creek meeting the Ohio River, Indiana]. Gouache on paper. 5 3/4" x 9 1/2" visible, 9" x 12 1/2" framed. Provenance: Private Collection, France (acquired directly from the artists). Thence by descent to the present owner. Marie Adrien Persac (1823-1873) was a photographer, architect, artist, and civil engineer. Born in Lyons, France, he came to the United States to hunt buffalo and settled in Indiana to cultivate apple orchards. It's not clear what brought Adrien down south to Louisiana. Letters with his marriage proposal show him to be a highly educated Frenchman. His wife was just 16 when they married. She lived on the Daigre Plantation, which Adrien later immortalized when he painted. They started their married life in Baton Rouge and later moved to New Orleans. The couple had three sons: Marie Adrien Edouard, Octave Joseph, and Alfred. Persac had a background in engineering and drew property maps for the Notarial Archives in New Orleans. He was also an accomplished artist and lithographer. In the late 1850s and early 1860s, Persac made some topographical gouache drawings of plantation houses in Louisiana on commission or, reportedly, as barter for room and board. He also briefly operated a photographic studio in the 1850s with William G. Vail. In 1869, he founded his own Academy of Drawing and Painting, where Persac taught portraiture and landscape painting in oil and watercolors. He died in Manchac, Louisiana.

Legendre Adrien Marie, Nouvelles méthodes pour la détermination des orbites des comètes. A Paris: chez Firmin Didot, libraire pour lew mathematiques..., an XIII-1805.

In-4° (mm 265x200). Pagine VIII, 80 con 1 tavola fuori testo a piena pagina incisa in calcografia. Copia lievemente brunita, in alcuni punti con brunitura più intensa in corrispondenza dello specchio di stampa e dei margini, ma completa e parzialmente intonsa. Legatura coeva in tutta carta rosa. (1)

Marie-Caroline ADRIEN (Paris ?-1845) Jacinthe rose, blanche et bleue signé 'Caroline Adrien eleve de Redouté.' mine de plomb, aquarelle et gouache rehaussé de gomme arabique sur vélin monté sur tablette avec étiquette du marchand de papier 'Au coq Honoré Alphone Giroux Rue du Coq-St-Honoré, n. 7, A Paris' 320 x 240 mm.