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André-Toussaint Petitjean (active 1860s)
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André-Toussaint Petitjean (active 1860s)

Plaza de la Constitución (El Zócalo), Mexico City

Closed14 December 2018

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André-Toussaint Petitjean (active 1860s)
Plaza de la Constitución (El Zócalo), Mexico City
signed 'Petitjean' (lower left)
oil on canvas
23 ½ x 34 ¼in. (59.6 x 87cm.)

Specialist note

Petitjean was travelling and sketching in Mexico in the 1860s, at the time of the French occupation and Emperor Maximilian. For a review of his work in Mexico, see A. de Los Reyes, 'Captura y reproducción del instante decisivo en el siglo XIX' in the exhibition catalogue Viageros Europeos del Siglo XIX en México (Casa de América, Madrid, March 1997), Mexico, 1996, pp. 225-33.