French-born watercolorist Marie Adrien Persac is known for his dozens of detailed renderings in watercolor of buildings in Louisiana. Legend has it that he came to America originally to hunt buffalo,... Read full biography
French-born watercolorist Marie Adrien Persac is known for his dozens of detailed renderings in watercolor of buildings in Louisiana. Legend has it that he came to America originally to hunt buffalo, but it is known for certain that by 1851, he was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He married to Marie... Read full biography
French-born watercolorist Marie Adrien Persac is known for his dozens of detailed renderings in watercolor of buildings in Louisiana. Legend has it that he came to America originally to hunt buffalo, but it is known for certain that by 1851, he was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He married to Marie Odile Daigre, lived on Bayou Manchac, and worked as a civil engineer and map-maker. In 1856, Persac, with partner William G. Vail, opened a short-lived photography business where he also exhibited his... Read full biography
French-born watercolorist Marie Adrien Persac is known for his dozens of detailed renderings in watercolor of buildings in Louisiana. Legend has it that he came to America originally to hunt buffalo, but it is known for certain that by 1851, he was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He married to Marie Odile Daigre, lived on Bayou Manchac, and worked as a civil engineer and map-maker. In 1856, Persac, with partner William G. Vail, opened a short-lived photography business where he also exhibited his drawings and watercolors. Persac was living in New Orleans after 1857, working again as a civil engineer and architect, and painting watercolors of the local architecture, whether ordinary buildings or elegant plantation houses. In an early example of... Read full biography
French-born watercolorist Marie Adrien Persac is known for his dozens of detailed renderings in watercolor of buildings in Louisiana. Legend has it that he came to America originally to hunt buffalo, but it is known for certain that by 1851, he was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He married to Marie Odile Daigre, lived on Bayou Manchac, and worked as a civil engineer and map-maker. In 1856, Persac, with partner William G. Vail, opened a short-lived photography business where he also exhibited his drawings and watercolors. Persac was living in New Orleans after 1857, working again as a civil engineer and architect, and painting watercolors of the local architecture, whether ordinary buildings or elegant plantation houses. In an early example of collage, Persac pasted figures on some of his early works that he and others drew, or he cut from newspapers or magazines, though he c... Read full biography
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About Adrien Persac: Books
Books & Publications (12)
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Printmaking in New Orleans
2006
Poesch, Jessie J. (Editor)
0 pages (color)
The Artists Bluebook 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005
2005
AskART.com Inc. - Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Editor)
479 pages
Davenport's Art Reference: The Gold Edition
2005
Davenport, Ray
2,421 pages
Who Was Who in American Art, 1564-1975: Three Volumes
1999
Falk, Peter Hastings (Editor)
3,724 pages
Downriver Currents of Style in Louisiana Painting 1800-1950
1991
Pennington, Estill Curtis
208 pages (color)
Art Across America: The South, Near Midwest (Volume Two)
1990
Gerdts, William H
396 pages (color)
Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists 1718-1918
1987
Mahe, John A. II; Rosanne McCaffrey (Editors)
464 pages
The Waters of America 19th Century Paintings of Rivers, Streams, Lakes and Waterfalls (Exhibition catalog)
1984
Wilmerding, John
104 pages
The Art of the Old South: Painting, Sculpture, Architecture and the Products of Craftsmen
1983
Poesch, Jessie
384 pages (color)
The Louisiana Landscape 1800-1969
1969
Anglo-American Art Museum
48 pages
Art and Life in America Revised and Enlarged Edition
1966
Larkin, Oliver W
559 pages (color)
The New York Historical Society's Dictionary of Artists in America 1564-1860