Adolphe Hastrel de Rivedoux

Adolphe Hastrel de Rivedoux

Adolphe Hastrel de Rivedoux by Charles Henri Hancke (1808-1869)
Born (1804-10-04)4 October 1804
Neuwiller-lès-Saverne, Bas-Rhin
Died 1 July 1875(1875-07-01) (aged 70)
Nantes, Loire-Atlantique
Nationality French
Known for Painting

Adolphe Hastrel de Rivedoux was a 19th-century engraver and painter, watercolourist, lithographer and former artillery captain in the navy.[1] Well known for his travels and his writing, he is best known as an artist who drew many watercolors, with a predilection for landscapes and the city of St. Paul, on Ile Bourbon from September 1836 to October 1837. In 1847, ten years after his passage for Réunion, he published an album of 36 views under the title Album de l’île Bourbon with Charles Lemercier.[2]

Biography

Born on 4 October 1805 in Neuwiller-lès-Saverne, Bas-Rhin, as the younger son of Lieutenant-General Baron Etienne Hastrel de Rivedoux was a general of division in the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars.[1] and grandfather, Christophe Claude d'Hastrel de Rivedoux,[3] capitain-major of infantry and chevalier de Saint-Louis, survived the Siege of Pondicherry in 1760, during the Seven Years' War.

He traveled the world for twenty years and took advantage of its military missions to draw and paint landscapes, scenes of daily life, human types and costumes.[2] His views of various cities in France, including Les Sables d'Olonne and La Rochelle, the colony of Senegal, Rio de Janeiro and other cities in South America are reproduced or referenced in many works of history, art history or dictionaries, French or foreign.[2] Adolphe Hastrel was also interested in music and the beginnings of photography including daguerreotypes. Upon his return, he himself published a series of albums lithographiques.[2] He died on 1 July 1875 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique.

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Gallery

References

  1. 1 2 Société de Géographie (1847). Bulletin de la Société de géographie. Société de Géographie. p. 177. OCLC 469785326
  2. 1 2 3 4 Musée Léon Diex. "Dossier Louis Antoine Roussin" (PDF). Lycée Antoine Roussin - Saint Louis de la Réunion. pp. 15–16, 57. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  3. ↑ Henri Raymond Casgrain, François Gaston Lévis, (1890). Journal des campagnes du chevalier de Lévis: en Canada de 1756 à 1760. C.O. Beauchemin & fils. p. 151. OCLC 49133065
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