Maître Brice Pescheteau-Badin
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Numa DESJARDINS (Mauritius, 1826 - ?)
View of Reunion Island…
See original version (French)
49
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Numa DESJARDINS (Mauritius, 1826 - ?)
View of Reunion Island…
See original version (French)
Estimate €5,000 - €6,000
Voluntary lot
Description
Numa DESJARDINS (Mauritius, 1826 - ?)
View of Reunion Island, the Pitons of Carbet
Canvas, signed and dated lower right "Numa Desjardins 1866"; inscribed in pencil on the reverse of the stretcher "Vue
of Port Louis Ile Maurice" on the reverse.
77 x 110.5 cm.
Misses and accidents
A painter as well as a musician, he appears to have been one of the most important artists in Mauritius during the second half of the 19th century.
the second half of the 19th century. In 1882, Henri Magny, a journalist visiting the English colony, noted that
that "painting, apart from the many amateurs who cultivate it in their spare time, has here some
initiates whose profession it is to spread its healthy popularisation. The names of M. de La Hogue, a superior portraitist
M. Avice, a commendable landscape artist, and Messrs Raphaël de Bavet and N. Desjardins, who have no speciality of their own, are on every
who have no speciality of their own, are on everyone's lips when the art of the divine Apelle is mentioned.
Decotter, Panorama de la peinture mauricienne, Éditions de l'océan Indien, 1986).
Desjardins also tried to set up a museum of painting in Mauritius in the 1870s and 1880s, but the project never came to fruition.
He also appears to have received awards at the Paris Universal Exhibition in 1867. Of this artist's output, only four landscapes are currently known, painted between 1854 and 1885. The
The earliest, Vue de Saint-Denis (1854), is in the Musée Léon-Dierx.
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