Numa DESJARDINS (Mauritius, 1826 - ?) - Lot 49

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Numa DESJARDINS (Mauritius, 1826 - ?) - Lot 49
Numa DESJARDINS (Mauritius, 1826 - ?) View of Reunion Island, the Pitons du Carbet Canvas, signed and dated lower right "Numa Desjardins 1866"; inscribed in pencil on the reverse "Vue de Port Louis Ile Maurice" on the reverse. 77 x 110.5 cm. Misses and accidents A painter as well as a musician, Numa Desjardins appears to have been one of the most important artists in Mauritius during the second half of the 19th century. second half of the 19th century. In 1882, Henri Magny, a journalist visiting the English colony, noted that that "painting, apart from the many amateurs who cultivate it in their spare time, has here some initiates whose profession it is to spread its healthy popularization. The names of M. de La Hogue, superior portraitist M. Avice, a commendable landscape artist, and Messrs Raphaël de Bavet and N. Desjardins, who have no speciality of their own. who have no speciality of their own, are on everyone's lips when the art of the divine Apelle is mentioned" (quoted in André Decotter, Panorama de la peinture mauricienne, Éditions de l'océan Indien, 1986). Desjardins also attempted to create a museum of painting in Mauritius during the 1870-1880s, a project that never came to fruition. He also appears to have received awards at the 1867 Paris Universal Exhibition. Of this artist's output, only four landscapes are currently known, painted between 1854 and 1885. The The earliest, Vue de Saint-Denis (1854), is in the Musée Léon-Dierx.
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