Adrien Dauzats (bordeaux, 1804 – 1868) Intérieur d'Une église En France. Aquarelle Sur Papier

Adrien Dauzats (Bordeaux, 1804 – 1868)  Interior of a church in France. Watercolor on paper, 218 x 157 mm. Signed and dated 1829.
Dauzats began his artistic work making theater sets for the Italian Theater in Paris in the 1920s, curiously in the same way and at the same time as David Roberts. Working there, he met Pharamond Blanchard, doing the same job, and became part of the Arsenal, an artistic and literary circle that included Charles Nodier, Baron Taylor, Alexander Dumas and Francis Wey, whose common denominator was their adherence to the movement. Romantic. Our watercolor belongs to a date slightly earlier than his first trip to Spain, at a time when his work as a painter of theater sets was close. However, the work already demonstrates his vocation as a watercolorist and draftsman, using this technique with great care and meticulous detail, typical of the 18th century tradition, which coexists in this case with the romantic taste for Gothic art.