Marie Adrien Persac (1823-1873)
The multi-talented Marie Adrien Persac was born in France in 1823, immmigrated to America in the early nineteenth century and worked as an architect, civil engineer, cartographer, photographer and artist. In 1859 Persac found employment as a painter documenting real estate transactions at the Notarial Archives in New Orleans. Persac’s finest and highly prized paintings are the series of watercolors and gouaches he did of the plantation homes along the lower Mississippi River and Louisiana bayous. He was active in New Orleans from 1857 to 1872 and died Manchac, Louisiana in 1873.