Hastrel de Rivedoux, Aldophe (sold) (Adolphe d'Hastrel)
Adolphe Hastrel de Rivedoux (Adolphe d'Hastrel; October 4, 1804 - July 1, 1875) was a French artist, writer, and traveler who became known for his landscapes - particularly those of the Americas. Wastrel was born in Neuwiller-lès-Saverne, Bas-Rhin, France, to a military family. He became a talented watercolorist, but ultimately followed his family vocation and joined the French navy as an artillery officer. His more than twenty years of travel with the navy allowed him to produce a rich corpus of watercolor landscapes from around the world firsthand. His works included portraits of natives in their traditional costumes, images of daily life, and city panoramas. He produced some lithographs on his own and was also an early adopter of photography, including daguerreotypes. He died in 1875 in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France.
AKA: Adolphe d'Hastrel
Montevideo Under Siege.
Montevideo.
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This beautiful view of Montevideo, Uruguay, captures the city on the brink of the Great Siege of Montevideo during the Uruguayan Civil War (1839 - 1851). It was drawn and painted by Adolphe d'Hastrel and lithographed in 1846 by Eugène Cicéri. Watercolorist and naval artillery officer d'Hastrel, accompanying the French Rio de la Plata expedition, arrived in Montevideo then under threat of attack: D'Hastel was able to find time - whilst directing the city's French residents' efforts to fortify the city - to draw and paint this, among the dozen views he would publish in the 1846 Album de la Plata. (more details)