Assiette illustrant le département du Calvados, L’Abbaye-aux-Dames à Caen, 1831.
After the lithograph from “Recueil de vues pittoresques de la France” by Constant Bourgeois, Paris, 1819-1825, pl. 13.
Printed by François Delpech. Born in Orléans in 1778, an art critic for Le Mercure under the Empire. Opened a print shop at 3 Quai Voltaire in Paris on June 16, 1818, after having worked in Sèvres since 1816. He published more than 200 lithographic drawings by Vernet, Thiénon, Bourgeois, Louis-Léopold Boilly (1761-1845), etc. In 1823, he began a vast series of portraits with facsimile handwriting, Iconographie des contemporains or Portraits of People Whose Names Are Particularly Connected, Either Through Their Actions or Their Writings, to Various Events That Took Place in France, from 1789 to 1829. These portraits were lithographed by Mauzaisse, Grévedon, Belliard, Monanteuil, and Bazin Jeune after paintings, sculptures, and drawings, several of which were also lithographed from life by Hesse, Dupré, and Maurin. He ceased his activity on August 2, 1825, when his wife took over, continuing to print and sell the work