Marie Adrien Persac
Subtitle: Louisiana Artist
Contributors: Louisiana State University (Corporate Author)
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9780807126424
Subjects: Biography: general; History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Individual artists; Techniques - Painting; c 1800 to c 1900; 1823-1873; Individual Artist; Art & Art Instruction; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General; Art; Louisiana; American - General; Persac, Marie Adrien,; In art; Exhibitions
First sentence: FOR years researchers of the life and works of Adrien Persac have been frustrated in their attempts to ascertain precisely where and when Persac was born and to learn something about his family background and education.
Description: Marie Adrien Persac (1823-1873) was a French-born Louisiana artist who worked in a range of mediums to produce a unique view of the lower Mississippi Valley at midcentury. In the first catalogued exhibition devoted solely to this multifaceted but overlooked talent, paintings, drawings, maps, and photographs from numerous holdings have been brought together to present fresh insights and reevaluate this artist's place in the annals of American history and material culture.Due in part to his broad talents artist, cartographer, architect, civil engineer, photographer, and art teacher Persac's work is of major importance to Southern history researchers and art historians. His paintings of south Louisiana plantation houses have captured that now-varnished lifestyle in minute detail, approximating the exactitude of architectural drafting. Today this series is invaluable to scholars of the period, as is Persac's painting of a steamboat interior -- the only one known to exist -- and another French Opera House, which burned to the ground in 1919.