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Last Name Jollois
Given Name Jean Baptiste Prosper
alt. Names J. B. P. J. ;
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Year born 1776 in Paris
Year died 1842
Place of death Paris
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Education École des Ponts et Chaussées, later active as ingenieur des Ponts et Chaussées
Country of Activity Egypt
Worked for Commission des sciences et des arts, accompanying Napoléon on his Egyptian expedition (1798-1801) ; Description de l'Égypte (1808, reprint Cologne 2007) ;
Patronage Membre de l'Institut d'Égypte (since Dec. 1798 in the section for littérature et arts)
Collaborators draughtsman ->J. Lepère ; draughtsman ->F. Cécile ; draughtsman ->A. Dutertre ; geographer ->E. Jomard ; engraver ->G. Chabrol ; engraver ->M. Devilliers ; engraver ->N. Leisnier ; engraver ->L. Baltard ; engraver ->J. Adam ; engraver ->Coquet ;
Techniques architectural and topographical pen-and-ink, pastel, watercolour, and painting ;
Sample(s) www.lindahall.org/events_exhib/exhibit/exhibits/napoleon/engineering.shtml ;
Archival sources for a list of his drawings for Description de l'Egypte: digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jomard1809bd2_2_1/0003?sid=7cdf52da5cd972a39308116a031028e8 ;
Published sources Labrique, Françoise & Uwe Westfehling (eds.): Mit Napoleon in Ägypten. Die Zeichnungen des J.-B. L. (Mainz 2009) ;
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