Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana ArtistMarie 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. |
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Contents
Chapter | 1 |
Chapter | 3 |
Chapter | 7 |
Adeline | 22 |
Baton Rouge Capital of Louisiana | 28 |
Daigre House | 34 |
Elm Hall | 40 |
Gill Map of Baton Rouge | 46 |
Lady of the Lake | 52 |
Normans Chart of the Lower Mississippi River | 58 |
SALLY KITTREDGE REEVES | 85 |
Chapter 4 | 99 |
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