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Ad Code: 3
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from Auction House Records.
Palo Alto Plantation, Ascension Parish
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French-born watercolorist Marie Adrien Persac is known for his dozens of detailed renderings in watercolor of buildings in Louisiana. Legend has it that he came to America originally to hunt buffalo, but it is known for certain that by 1851, he was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He married to Marie Odile Daigre, lived on Bayou Manchac, and worked as a civil engineer and map-maker.
In 1856, Persac, with partner William G. Vail, opened a short-lived photography business where he also exhibite (showing 500 of 2243 characters). |
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