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Last Name Balzac
Given Name Charles-Louis
alt. Names C.-L. B. ;
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Year born 1752 in Paris
Year died 1820
Place of death Paris
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Education training as architect ;
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 ->J. Jollois ; engraver ->M. Devilliers ; engraver ->N. Leisnier ; engraver ->L. Baltard ; engraver ->J. Adam ; engraver ->Coquet ; engineer and surveyor E. F. Jornard ;
Techniques architectural and topographical pen-and-ink drawing, pastel, watercolour, and painting ;
Sample(s) http://arthistory.about.com/od/from_exhibitions/ig/Napoleon-on-the-Nile/Edfu--Temple-Interior.htm ; www.grahamhancock.com/forum/NunnP1.php?p=2 ;
Archival sources www.touregypt.net/featurestories/pyramidtravelers1.htm ; digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/jomard1809bd2_2_1/0003?sid=7cdf52da5cd972a39308116a031028e8
Published sources Bryan 1886-9 ; Françoise Labrique & Uwe Westfehling (eds.): Mit Napoleon in Ägypten. Die Zeichnungen des J.-B. L. (Mainz 2009: 74ff.) ;
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