biografía de Gaspard DUCHÉ DE VANCY (1756-1788)

Lugar de nacimiento: France

Lugar de defunción: at sea

Profesión: Painter, draftsman, and engraver

Exposiciones: Royal Academy (1784)

Obra: Museo Naval, Madrid; Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley

Comentarios: Was living in London in 1784 and shortly thereafter joined the La PÈrouse expedition as an artist. On reaching California with the expedition in 1786, DuchÈ de Vancy recorded the scene of La PÈrouse's reception at the Carmel Mission (now known only through early copies). The artist died in the Pacific in 1788.

Fuentes: G&W; Van Nostrand and Coulter, California Pictorial 4-5, repro.; Roberts, Thomas Spence DuchÈ," 273, cites an essay on DuchÈ de Vancy by Emile Delignières in Journal des Arts, Jan. 1, 1911; Hughes, Artists of California, 158."