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Blatt-Maße: ca. 18 x 30 cm. Bleistift Zeichnung. Auf dünnem Zeichenpapier, an den Ecken alt aufmontiert. -- etwas fleckig und gebräunt, sonst gut erhalten || Pencil drawing. On thin drawing paper, old mounted at the corners. -- somewhat stained and browned, otherwise in very good condition || || Adolphe Hedwige Alphonse Delamare was a French soldier, draftsman and archaeologist. From September 1824 to December 1827 he was assigned to the French expeditionary army sent to Spain with the mission of reestablishing absolutism. From his stay in Spain, just over a hundred drawings and watercolors of picturesque views and monuments treated with a point of view, in many cases romantic, are known, the first dated in the Basque Country, although the majority They correspond to landscapes of Catalonia, where he stayed the longest and covered much of its length. There are also some drawings from Aragon, the Balearic Islands and an undated drawing from Andorra. In 1830 he was assigned to the army of Africa and participated in the occupation of Algeria. In the mid-1830s he was in France, as can be seen from a few signed drawings there, with landscapes of Brittany and Normandy, but as soon as he learned that the Ministry of War and the Institute of France were preparing a scientific expedition to Algeria applied for a place on it. In November 1839 he joined the Commission d'exploration scientifique d'Algérie as deputy draftsman. As a regular draftsman later, he continued in Algeria with various positions until 1845, although the commission had been officially dissolved in 1842, and he returned to Algeria in 1850-1851, without returning to his military duties in all that time. Passionate about antiquities and with the support of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres and the Socièté des Antiquaires de France, of which he was elected resident member in January 1850, but without specific training in archeology - he barely knew any Latin - he performed with enthusiasm the task of drawing plans, places and the pieces found to preserve them from the destruction of colonization. In total he made more than two thousand five hundred drawings, engravings and published in prints, some of them in 1850 and again in 1912 - Exploration scientifique de l'Algérie pendant les années 1840-1845 - with an explanatory text of the plates signed by S. Gsell. At the same time he was commissioned to gather a collection of antiquities to be sent to France and form an Algerian museum with them. In this aspect, however, and with the exception of the Koudiat Aty mosaic, in the province of Constantine, the objects sent were dismissed as uninteresting rubble. Something similar happened with his drawings, disqualified as simple picturesque views by the architects Bonaventure. Amable Ravoisié, officially commissioned by the scientific commission to study the archaeological remains, and Louis-Hippolyte Le Bas, from the Academy of Fine Arts, who was in charge of supervision. Delamare died without direct descendants and his drawings, in the hands of family and friends, were dispersed. The Louvre keeps around three hundred and fifty, mainly objects that came to the museum itself. Other sets are found in the Sorbonne library and in the Department of Antiquities of the Library of Algiers. One hundred and nine notes and watercolors from his stay in Spain, dated between 1824 and 1827, were acquired in 2016 by the Servei de Museus of the Generalitat of Catalonia and assigned to the Cabinet of Drawings and Gravats of the MNAC. Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 10. Seller Inventory # 290841
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