Adrien Dauzats (1804 Bordeaux - 1868 Paris), Street Scene In The Front Of A Gothic Cathedral (capriccio Of Strasbourg)

A magnificent cityscape in front of a Gothic cathedral has been attributed for manner, composition and motif to French landscape, genre painter and orientalist Adrien Dauzats (1804 Bordeaux - 1868 Paris). He has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and has illustrated a number of books for the traveling writer, Baron Taylor. Adrien Dauzats was born in Bordeaux in 1804. His father was a set painter in a Bordeaux theater, and the boy grew up dreaming of becoming a stage painter. He becomes Lacour's pupil at the School of Drawing. He frequently exhibited genre subjects and church interiors at the Salon, and was also a lithographer. After completing his studies, around 1829, he accompanied Baron Taylor, playwright, soldier and archaeologist to the Middle East and visited Egypt, Syria, Mount Sinai, Palestine and other places, with the aim of making illustrations for Baron Taylor's travel books, including: Voyages Pittoresques et Romantiques de l'Ancienne France: 1820-63; Picturesque voyage in Spain, in Portugal, and on the African coast, from Tangier to Tetouan: 1826-32; Syria, Egypt, Palestine, and Judea: 1835-39, and other books.

Literature: Bénézit; Thieme & Becker; Schurr; Hardouin-Fuger, Wikipedia online.
Inscription: signed indistinctly, as I tried to read: "Dauzats .." lower right.
Technique: gouache on paper, mat and framing.
Dimensions: unframed 28 x 42 cm, mat and framed 46.5 x 63 cm.
Condition: in very good condition.