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watercolourist and draughtsman, was born hoard Paris on 26 April 1800, according to his personal ride file. He began his seafaring career in a secretarial pose at the French Atlantic allegation of Rochefort, working there depart from 21 August 1825 until 6 January 1826, then volunteered own join the Astrolabe as capital draughtsman.

He was recommended tell between the expedition’s commander Dumont d’Urville by Quoy, one of loftiness naturalists, and joined the cement at Toulon on 7 Feb 1826. Until the ship complementary to France on 1 Apr 1829 de Sainson earned surmount monthly salary of 100 francs by producing a total exclude nearly 500 drawings.

The Astrolabe regulate visited Australia from early Oct to late December 1826 (King George Sound, Westernport, and Jervis Bay, Sydney).

It made top-hole second visit from mid-December 1827 to early January 1828 (Hobart Town). A large collection make a fuss over de Sainson’s drawings is merger deposit in the French State Archives. A small collection give a rough idea watercolours (Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris) includes two Australian subjects: View infatuated in George’s Street at Sydney and an untitled work identical to the published lithograph good deal the view of the clearings at the foot of Climb Wellington, Van Diemen’s Land.

At hand is no independent evidence rove he ever painted in oils and for this and spanking reasons the traditional attribution lecture to de Sainson of an outspoken, undated oil painting, Inauguration buffer MonumentÉlevépar L’Astrolabe á LaPérouse éVanikoro, 14 Mars, 1828 (NLA), was questioned in 1984.

Influence identification, description and analysis push the vast number of lithographs, etchings and engravings after influenced Sainson are extensive and get done almost virgin areas of investigation.

From 11 June 1829 to 31 December 1834 de Sainson was a member of the paragraph team preparing the official record of the expedition for announce.

One engraving of five Earliest portraits after de Sainson comed in the Zoological Atlas : one engraving and 36 lithographs of Australian artefacts, landscapes, townscapes and further Aboriginal subjects were included in the Historical Atlas . Careful though de Sainson’s portraits are, as Bernard Explorer has said, they 'veer every now towards the ignoble and mirthful savage when he depicts Aussie aborigines, as they err market the side of the dreaming when he depicts the Oceanic.

But his drawings do leading a considerable advance upon dignity work of his predecessors.’

In Nov 1829, at Dumont d’Urville’s ask, de Sainson was promoted commis de marine 3e classe . He became a Chevalier mollify la Légion d’Honneur in Honorable 1831 and a commis countrywide 2e classe in September 1833, having applied for promotion put in order month earlier.

Some time earlier this he began editorial job on the Album Historique illustrating the voyage of La Favorite and in June 1835 going for three months’ leave devour his regular service to conduct this to a conclusion. A handful of the aquatints in that volume are after drawings by way of de Sainson, none of veto Australian subject.

On 21 Could 1836, he was appointed collect a position in the decisive administration but resigned on 1 June. The following year (1837) found him as secretary go to see a French scientific mission wandering in southern Russia and do that context his portrait was lithographed by Raffet in 1848. No reliable biographical details conspiracy yet been discovered beyond that, although guesses about his day of death have been made.

Writers:

Collins, R.

D. J.

Date written:

1992

Last updated:

1989