In 1873 Louisiana artist Marie Marie Adrien Persac (December 14, – July 21, ) was a French-born American fine art painter, cartographer, photographer, and art teacher. Persac watercolored south Louisiana plantation houses and other aspects of the Southern landscape, and his work has much importance to Southern historians.
In this 134 page volume. In , N.O. publisher B. M. Norman published "Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River by A. Persac," based upon Persac's descent of the river from Natchez MS to N.O., drawing every plantation line, their names, the owners, and landmarks on both banks.
PERSAC, Marie Adrien, artist, teacher, architect, Marie Adrien Persac () was a Louisiana artist in the mid-nineteenth century. Persac is best known for his many surviving plantation landscapes, but Persac also painted many maps and multiple view of Canal Street in New Orleans.
Others, like Marie Adrien Persac, Born in France, Persac came to Louisiana in about He lived first in Baton Rouge, and married Marie Odile Daigre. Persac had a background in engineering, and drew property maps for the Notarial Archives in New Orleans.
The artist was Marie Adrien Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Artist, currently on view at the Historic New Orleans Collection, first opened in September at the Louisiana State University Museum of Art in Baton Rouge. The public’s perception of Persac’s works previously has derived from a few of his better known images—this exhibition offers not only a comprehensive.
An exhibition of works Painter, photographer, surveyor, lithographer, and inventor Marie Adrien Persac was the most important delineator of plantatino scenes in nineteenth-century Louisiana.
Today's Nonfiction November prompt is
Marie Adrien Persac--an itinerant painter, cartographer, photographer, and lithographer--detailed nineteenth century Louisiana life. One aspect that he captured in his paintings was plantation life in Louisiana during the mid-nineteenth century. Note: The artist Marie Adrien Persac Marie Adrien Persac () 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.