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Edouard Delessert

Edouard Alexandre Henri Delessert

1828–1898 · France

Painter. Collected at Larnaca. Gave to Musee de Cluny; sibling of François Benjamin Marie Delessert.

Life and work

  1. 1849
    Joined Saulcy's expedition (left Marseille September 1849) as a family friend; on the way the party stopped in Cyprus and collected terracotta figurines and a statue of an offering-bearer holding a small bull, published by Longperier in 1855.

    CyprusTatton-Brown 2001

  2. 1851–1852
    With Saulcy acquired at Larnaca the 13th-c. tomb slab of Brocard de Charpigny (said found 1844 near the sea at Nea Paphos) and gave it to the Musee de Cluny (Inv. Cl. 18 842). Merrillees notes the Revue archeologique 1852 attributes the purchase to 'MM. de Saulcy et Edouard Delessert'; Merrillees's own wording is 'Saulcy and/or Delessert'.

    LarnacaMerrillees 2016

Connections

4 people
François Benjamin Marie D…Félicien de SaulcyLéon BellyFélicien Henri de SaulcyEdouard Delessert
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Colleagues & contacts

Objects

  • Tomb slab of Brocard de Charpigny (cut from a re-used ancient column)

    From garden near the sea, Nea Paphos (said April 1844)Musee de Cluny, Paris Cl. 18 8421851–1852Merrillees 2016

Sources

  1. 1.Robert Stuart Merrillees (2016). “Studies on the provenances of the stele of Sargon II from Larnaca (Kition) and the two so-called Dhali (Idalion) silver bowls in the Louvre”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 46, 349-386. Online
  2. 2.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.