Adrien Dauzats

1804 – 1868

French painter, illustrator, and draftsman. He he studied set painting in his native Bordeaux, then worked in Paris painting sets for the Théâtre Italien. He began working with Baron Taylor in 1827 on Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France. He thus made a large number of architectural paintings and drawings. Dauzats was one of the first painters to embark on exploratory trips to exotic countries. In 1830, he traveled with Baron Taylor to Egypt, the Sinai, Palestine, and Syria. He went to Spain several times (1835 to 1837), then to Algeria (1839) and Tangiers (1850). Although his orientalist work was free of the constraints inherent in a commission, it essentially consisted of views of monuments with landscapes of varying size, depending on the work. He was a frequent exhibitor at the Salon of genre subjects and interiors of churches, and was also a lithographer. He was a friend of Delacroix who asked him to be one of his executors.

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