Vue de Felletin, Frontieres des Etats du Pape et du Royaume de Naples

View taken from the Recueil de Vues et fabriques pittoresques d'Italie, Dessinées d'apres Nature, Et publiées par C. Bourgeois, Peintre.

This album of engravings taken from drawings by Florent Constant Bourgeois, engraved by Guyot and Lameau, includes mostly views of Rome and its environs (Tivoli, Marino, Subiaco, Montecassino, Anagni, Grottaferrata, Frascati, Genzano, Castel Gandolfo, etc.), but also of Florence, Pisa, Siena, Genoa, Caserta and Naples.

The work, whose frontispiece was never printed, came out in handouts as a collection of prints and was edited by Bourgeois himself in Paris, with address Mousé des Artistes, rue de Sorbonne.

Florent-Constant Bourgeois, known as "Bourgeois du Castelet," was originally a military officer. Bourgeois devoted himself exclusively to art from the mid-1790s, perfecting his training in Jacques-Louis David's studio, where he specialized in landscapes and became above all an extraordinary draughtsman; Paul Marmottan, in his "Ecole française de peinture, 1789-1830," refers to his " grande pureté de style et l'exécution brillante de ses dessins, la plupart très remarquables, notamment ceux au lavis." Highly sought after and appreciated during his lifetime, Bourgeois received numerous artistic prizes and awards, a house in the Louvre, and the Legion of Honor in 1827. He lived at No. 3 quai Malaquais in Paris.

His activity as a painter is less well known today, yet he exhibited paintings in almost every Salon from 1791 to 1830, with only views of Italy for the period from the Revolution to the Consulate.

Copperplate engraving, impressed on contemporary laid paper, minor oxidation, otherwise in good condition.

Bibliografia

Brunet I 1178.