Adrien Dauzats

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Posthumous portrait of Dauzats by Loÿs Delteil

Adrien Dauzats, a French landscape and genre painter, was born at Bordeaux in 1804. He became a pupil of Michel-Julien Gué, and afterwards travelled in France, Spain, Egypt, and Palestine, for the purpose of making illustrations for Baron Taylor's 'Voyages pittoresques et romantiques de l'ancienne Prance,' 1820-63; ' Voyage pittoresque en Espagne, en Portugal, et sur la côte d'Afrique, de Tanger à Tetouan,' 1826-32; 'La Syrie, I'Egypte, la Palestine et la Judée,' 1835-39, and other books. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Salon of genre subjects and interiors of churches, and was also a lithographer. He died in Paris in 1868.

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  The Iron Gates Pass in Algeria, 18 October 1839, now at the Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans

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  The Palais de Justice, the Conciergerie and the Tour de l'Horloge, after 1858

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  The house of deacon François de Pâris in the Rue des Bourguignons (now the Boulevard de Port-Royal): drawing from 1867

References

• This article incorporates text from the article "DAUZATS, Adrien" in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters and Engravers by Michael Bryan, edited by Robert Edmund Graves and Sir Walter Armstrong, an 1886–1889 publication now in the public domain.