Fort de France, Martinique

Details

Michel Jean Cazabon (1813-1888)
Fort de France, Martinique
watercolour on paper
10¾ x 14in. (27.3 x 35.6cm.)

Provenance

Wehekind collection.

Literature

G.MacLean, Cazabon, Port of Spain, 1986, pp.34 and 130 (MLW.60.Weh.05).

Exhibited

Port of Spain, (Exhibition in aid of the French Red Cross organised by Beatrice Greig), Queen's Royal College and Royal Victoria Institute, 14-21 July 1917, no.55.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Cazabon and his family moved from Trinidad to Martinique in 1862 in search of new patrons. He rented a house in Rue Longchamps, St. Pierre, and produced works for merchants and wealthy planters, as well as illustrations for the French newspapers, but appears to have had little success, returning to Trinidad at the end of the 1860s.

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