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1799 Switzerland - 1855 near San Jose, California. Known for: Amateur town-harbor views.
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Born in Combremont le Petit, Switzerland on June 14, 1799. Vioget ran away from home at age 15 and joined Napoleon's fife and drum corps. He was later apprenticed to a French naval engineer. During... Read full biography
Born in Combremont le Petit, Switzerland on June 14, 1799. Vioget ran away from home at age 15 and joined Napoleon's fife and drum corps. He was later apprenticed to a French naval engineer. During the early 1830s he was captain of a trading bark called the Delmira which plied the coast of Peru and... Read full biography
Born in Combremont le Petit, Switzerland on June 14, 1799. Vioget ran away from home at age 15 and joined Napoleon's fife and drum corps. He was later apprenticed to a French naval engineer. During the early 1830s he was captain of a trading bark called the Delmira which plied the coast of Peru and Ecuador. Upon reaching San Francisco Bay in 1837, he secured the right to trade from the Mexican comandante. Vioget made a survey of Yerba Buena (San Francisco) in 1839 which included laying out the... Read full biography
Born in Combremont le Petit, Switzerland on June 14, 1799. Vioget ran away from home at age 15 and joined Napoleon's fife and drum corps. He was later apprenticed to a French naval engineer. During the early 1830s he was captain of a trading bark called the Delmira which plied the coast of Peru and Ecuador. Upon reaching San Francisco Bay in 1837, he secured the right to trade from the Mexican comandante. Vioget made a survey of Yerba Buena (San Francisco) in 1839 which included laying out the streets and creating the Plaza (Portsmouth Square) out of a potato patch. Sutter also engaged him to survey and make maps of New Helvetia (Sutter's Fort). For awhile Vioget kept a hotel in Yerba Buena as well as a saloon-billiard hall. Having amassed... Read full biography
Born in Combremont le Petit, Switzerland on June 14, 1799. Vioget ran away from home at age 15 and joined Napoleon's fife and drum corps. He was later apprenticed to a French naval engineer. During the early 1830s he was captain of a trading bark called the Delmira which plied the coast of Peru and Ecuador. Upon reaching San Francisco Bay in 1837, he secured the right to trade from the Mexican comandante. Vioget made a survey of Yerba Buena (San Francisco) in 1839 which included laying out the streets and creating the Plaza (Portsmouth Square) out of a potato patch. Sutter also engaged him to survey and make maps of New Helvetia (Sutter's Fort). For awhile Vioget kept a hotel in Yerba Buena as well as a saloon-billiard hall. Having amassed a sizable fortune, he married the daughter of one of the local dons. In 1843 he moved to a land grant near San Jose, CA where he remained unt.... Read full biography
Jean Jacques Vioget - Artist Info
About Jean Jacques Vioget: Keywords
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Art Method
- •Sketch, Sketching
Art Style
- •Amateur Artist
Art Subject
- •Harbor, Harbour View
- •Marine, Maritime, Riverfront, Boats, Canoes, Steam Boats, Nautical
Geography/Places Lived and/or Worked
- •California Before 1940
- •Northern California Before 1900
Chronology
- •Early 19th Century Before Civil War