Marie Adrien Persac

by Persac, Marie Adrien; Bacot, H. Parrott; Bacot, Barbara Sorelle; Reeves, Sally Kittredge; Magill, John T.; Lawrence, John H.

• ISBN13: 9780807126417
• ISBN10: 0807126411
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Author Biography

H. Parrott Bacot is professor of art history and formerly executive director of the Museum of Art and Natural Science at Louisiana State University Barbara Sorelle Bacot is architectural historian and cultural geographer in the Division of Historic Preservation at the Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism Sally Kittredge Reeves is archivist of the New Orleans Notarial Archives John Magill is curator and reading room supervisor at the Historic New Orleans Collection John H. Lawrence is director of museum programs at the Collection

Table of Contents

Underwriters	xi
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Persac Family History	1	(8)
H. Parrott Bacot
Marie Adrien Persac---Artist of an American Landscape	9	(76)
Barbara SoRelle Bacot
Persac Paintings, Maps, and Prints	21	(64)
Adeline	22	(2)
Albania	24	(2)
Balzamine	26	(2)
Baton Rouge (Capital of Louisiana)	28	(2)
Bois de Fleche	30	(2)
Camp Moore	32	(2)
Daigre House	34	(2)
Darby	36	(2)
Dominique's Store	38	(2)
Elm Hall	40	(2)
Faye Plantation	42	(2)
French Opera House	44	(2)
Gill Map	46	(2)
Hope Estate	48	(2)
Ile Copal	50	(2)
Lady of the Lake	52	(2)
Louisiana Asylum for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind	54	(2)
Manchac	56	(2)
Norman's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River	58	(2)
Orange Grove	60	(2)
Palo Alto	62	(2)
Port and City of New Orleans	64	(2)
Prairie Sorrel (Magnolia)	66	(2)
Interior of the Main Cabin of the Steamboat Princess/Imperial	68	(2)
Riverlake Sugarhouse	70	(2)
Ste. Bridgette	72	(2)
St. John	74	(2)
Shadows-on-the-Teche	76	(4)
Union	80	(2)
View of Baton Rouge (Shaving Mug, Vases)	82	(3)
The Notarial Archives Drawings of Adrien Persac	85	(16)
Sally Kittredge Reeves
Canal Street in the 1870s	101	(6)
John Magill
The Canal Street Drawings	107	(4)
John H. Lawrence
Persac's Canal Street Views	111	(22)
John Magill
Selected Bibliography	133