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Le Breton, Dumont d'Urville's expedition surgeon on the Astrolabe took over as expedition artist with the death of Ernest Goupil at Hobart on 1 January 1840. On the same day the Astrolabe and Zele set out from Hobart on their second attempt to explore the Antarctic waters. D'Urville took his ships south, making the first French crossing of the Antarctic circle on 19 January. Two days later the tricolour was planted on Pointe-Gologie where the expedition was blocked just short of the mainland by ice. The land was claimed in the name of the King and baptised Terre Adlie.
D'Urville returned to Toulon in November 1840. Le Breton's drawings, along with those of Goupil, were published as lithographs in the Atlas Pittoresque which accompanied D'Urville's Voyage au Pole Sud.
Le Breton later served on the Berceau in the Indian Ocean and transferred to the Department of Maps and Charts in Paris in 1848, working as an illustrator and lithographer until his death in August 1866.
The iceberg in the present picture was the subject of plate 166 (Vue d'une Ile de Glace le 18 Janvier 1840, Parages Antarctiques) from the Atlas Pittoresque, II.
D'Urville returned to Toulon in November 1840. Le Breton's drawings, along with those of Goupil, were published as lithographs in the Atlas Pittoresque which accompanied D'Urville's Voyage au Pole Sud.
Le Breton later served on the Berceau in the Indian Ocean and transferred to the Department of Maps and Charts in Paris in 1848, working as an illustrator and lithographer until his death in August 1866.
The iceberg in the present picture was the subject of plate 166 (Vue d'une Ile de Glace le 18 Janvier 1840, Parages Antarctiques) from the Atlas Pittoresque, II.