Voyage au Brésil by Jean Baptiste Debret
This collection consists of the three volume facsimile of Debret’s work Voyage au Brésil, depicting rural and urban scenes of early 1800s Brazil. The facsimile edition of 1965 was published in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Rio de Janeiro with little changes from the original volumes of 1834.
Jean Baptiste Debret, born in 1768, was a French artist best known for his lithographs depicting Brazilian life. Debret studied at the French Academy of Fine Arts, a pupil of the great Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) to whom he was related. Under the direction of the secretary of fine arts in the Institute of France, Debret went to Rio de Janeiro in 1816 with the group known as the French Artistic Mission. The group had been invited by the Portuguese to establish a school, the Brazilian Academy of Fine Arts.
The original materials are held by the Woodson Research Center in Fondren Library.
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