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Expedition member · Draughtsman / artist

Léon Loysel

fl. 1849–1850 · France

Painter, active 1849–1850. Worked with Léon Belly and Félicien de Saulcy.

Life and work

  1. September 1849
    Left Marseille in September 1849 with F. de Saulcy's expedition (de Saulcy, his son Félicien Henri, Edouard Delessert, a botanist, l'abbé J. H. Michon, and the painters Léon Belly and Léon Loysel); the party called at Cyprus on the way, where they collected terracotta figurines and a statue of an offering-bearer holding a small bull, published by Longpérier in 1855.

    CyprusTatton-Brown 2001, p. 143

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Colleagues & contacts

Sources

  1. 1.Veronica Tatton-Brown (ed.) (2001). Cyprus in the 19th Century AD: Fact, Fancy and Fiction. Oxford, Oxbow.