Adolphe Hastrel de Rivedoux was a 19th-century engraver and painter, watercolourist, lithographer and former artillery captain in the navy.
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
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, he published an album of 36 views under the title ''Album de l’île Bourbon'' with Charles Lemercier.
Biography
He was 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.
His grandfather, Christophe Claude d'Hastrel de Rivedoux,
capitain-major of infantry and
chevalier de Saint-Louis
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, 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.
His views of various cities in France, including
Les Sables d'Olonne
Les Sables-d'Olonne (; French meaning: "The Sands of Olonne"; Poitevin: ''Lés Sablles d'Oloune'') is a seaside town in Western France, on the Atlantic Ocean. A subprefecture of the department of Vendée, Pays de la Loire, it has the administ ...
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.
Adolphe Hastrel was also interested in music and the beginnings of photography including
daguerreotype
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Invented by Louis Daguerre an ...
s. Upon his return, he himself published a series of albums lithographiques.
He died on 1 July 1875 in
Nantes
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, Loire-Atlantique.
Selected works
* ''Arbre du Conseil près de
Dacar''
* ''Tisserand à
Gorée''
* ''Hameau de
Hann dans l'anse de Gorée
* ''Une habitation à Gorée (Maison d'Anna Colas)''
* ''
Rio de Janeiro dessiné du sommet du
Corcovado'' (1841)
* ''Montevideo'', lithographie, vers 1845
* ''Pont et aqueduc de Mr Marchand, Ravine à Marquet'' (1847)
* ''Igreja de Nossa Senhoras da Glória e Santa Luzia'' lithography (1847)
* ''
La Rochelle - Place de l’Hôtel de Ville,'' ud.
* ''Tour et église de Saint-Sauveur'' (La Rochelle) (1854)
* ''Le domaine impérial de la
Motte-Beuvron, en
Sologne'' (1858)
Gallery
File:Adolphe d'Hastrel-La Motte-Beuvron.jpg, La Motte-Beuvron
File:Gorée-Maison Anna Colas.jpg, Gorée-Maison Anna Colas
File:Hôtel de ville de La Rochelle (dessin) - 2.jpg, Hôtel de ville de La Rochelle (dessin)
File:Maisonannacolas4.jpg, Maison Anna Colas
References
;Attribution
*''This article is based on the translation of the corresponding article on the French Wikipedia. A list of contributors can be found there at the'
History''section.''
External links
*
at Fotohistoria.net
* [http://catalogo.bnportugal.pt/ipac20/ipac.jsp?session=125T885P70390.402416&profile=bn&uri=link=3100027~!8152038~!3100024~!3100022&aspect=basic_search&menu=search&ri=1&source=~!bnp&term=Marchande+de+pains+des+environs+de+Lisbonne&index=ALTITLE#focus ''Marchande de pains des environs de Lisbonne'' (around 1850)] at Biblioteca nacional de Portugal
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1805 births
1875 deaths
19th-century engravers
19th-century French painters
French male painters
People from Bas-Rhin
19th-century French military personnel
French engravers
19th-century French male artists