biography of Marie Adrien PERSAC (1823-1873)

Birth place: Lyons, France

Death place: Manchac, LA (at family picnic)

Addresses: active New Orleans, 1857-72

Profession: Landscape and architecture painter, lithographer, teacher, architect

Exhibited: Louisiana Grand State Fair (1867-71, prizes); Paris Expo (1868); at Laurent Uter's store in New Orleans (1872)

Work: La. State Museum ("Olivier Plantation"); Shadows-on-the-Teche, New Iberia, La.

Comments: Specialized in architectural, estate, and city scenes, as well as maps and charts. In 1858 his detailed renderings of plantation lines, names, owners, and landmarks were published in Normans's Chart of the Lower Mississippi River. From 1860-69 painted watercolors of New Orleans buildings and sites that were used in real estate transactions. Some of these were done in partnership with Eugene Surgi. Also known through gouache paintings of Louisiana plantations such as "Olivier," "Shadows-on-the-Teche," and "Ile Copal," of 1860-61. Made lithographs of city scenes and business establishments (a series of the latter were pub. by Benedict Simon, c.1870).

Sources: G&W; American Processional, 246. More recently, see Encyclopaedia of New Orleans Artists. 299-300.