Édouard Delessert

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Caricature of Édouard Delessert by Eugène Giraud

Édouard Delessert (15 December 1828 – 27 March 1898) was a French painter, archaeologist and photographer.

Biography

Delessert's parents were

Jean-Joseph de Laborde, and banker Gabriel Delessert.[1] His mother would go on to be a mistress with several men.[2][3][4]

Édouard Delessert was at the same time a painter, archaeologist and especially a pioneer of photography using the

Italy. Contributor to the Revue de Paris
from 1851 to 1858, founder of the critical magazine L'Athenaeum, he embarked on business where he swallowed up a large part of his fortune, before wasting the rest.

Prosper Mérimée, who had been his mother's lover, was his mentor in literature and developed, in the letters he addressed to her, some of his aesthetic principles.

With the founding of the

Haiti indemnity.[5]

He died on March 27, 1898, without descendants and was buried in Paris in the

Passy cemetery, in the tomb of the Delessert family
.

References

  1. ^ "Valentine Delessert (1806-1894)". data.bnf.fr. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
  2. ^ "Prosper Mérimée, aquarelliste-reporter". Le Magazine de Encheres. Retrieved 2020-02-25.
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  5. ^ Alcenat, Westenly. "The Case for Haitian Reparations". Jacobin. Retrieved 2021-02-20.

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