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1808 Issoudun, France - 1877. Known for: Exotic land views, genre, lithographs.
A Frenchman, August Borget is best known for his drawings and prints of exotic places, in particular China. He was born in 1809 in Issoudun, France south of Paris. Borget began a banking career, but... Read full biography
A Frenchman, August Borget is best known for his drawings and prints of exotic places, in particular China. He was born in 1809 in Issoudun, France south of Paris. Borget began a banking career, but soon went to Paris to become an artist, and periodically exhibited at the Salon from 1836 to 1859.... Read full biography
A Frenchman, August Borget is best known for his drawings and prints of exotic places, in particular China. He was born in 1809 in Issoudun, France south of Paris. Borget began a banking career, but soon went to Paris to become an artist, and periodically exhibited at the Salon from 1836 to 1859. Beginning in 1836, he traveled through North and South America before stopping briefly in Honolulu in May, 1838, on board the ship "Psyche", on a world tour that took him to China. Age twenty-nine at... Read full biography
A Frenchman, August Borget is best known for his drawings and prints of exotic places, in particular China. He was born in 1809 in Issoudun, France south of Paris. Borget began a banking career, but soon went to Paris to become an artist, and periodically exhibited at the Salon from 1836 to 1859. Beginning in 1836, he traveled through North and South America before stopping briefly in Honolulu in May, 1838, on board the ship "Psyche", on a world tour that took him to China. Age twenty-nine at the time he visited 'The Sandwich Islands', Borget evidenced professional arts training in his confident sketches; such as one he did in 1838 of the Honolulu waterfront with beached outrigger canoes and gabled buildings. Auguste Borget resided in... Read full biography
A Frenchman, August Borget is best known for his drawings and prints of exotic places, in particular China. He was born in 1809 in Issoudun, France south of Paris. Borget began a banking career, but soon went to Paris to become an artist, and periodically exhibited at the Salon from 1836 to 1859. Beginning in 1836, he traveled through North and South America before stopping briefly in Honolulu in May, 1838, on board the ship "Psyche", on a world tour that took him to China. Age twenty-nine at the time he visited 'The Sandwich Islands', Borget evidenced professional arts training in his confident sketches; such as one he did in 1838 of the Honolulu waterfront with beached outrigger canoes and gabled buildings. Auguste Borget resided in China from 1838 through 1839, traveling and sketching. The results of his work were published in Paris in 1842 as an album of lithographs en... Read full biography
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Keywords (25)
Art Method
- •Drawing, Draftsmanship, Draughtsman
- •Easel Painting
- •Graphic Design, Printmaking, Lithography, Etching, Woodblocks
- •Sketch, Sketching
Art Media
- •Chalk
- •Lithography, Lithograph
- •Mixed Media, Multi Media and/or Multli Styles
- •Oil Paint
- •Pen and Ink Drawing
- •Watercolor/Watercolour
Art Style
Art Subject
- •Coastal View, Shoreline, Seaside
- •Figure, Figurative Humans
- •Genre, Human Activity, Daily Life
- •Indians, Native Americans
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •China
- •Hawaiian Islands and/or South Seas, Tahiti, Bali
- •Paris Studied and/or Worked Before 1900
- •South America
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War
- •Late 19th Century, After Civil War
Added Description
- •Expedition Artist of Drawings, Paintings, and/or Photographs
- •Genre Specialty
Exhibition of Commercial Art Gallery and/or Salon
- •Paris Salons