AUGUSTE BORGET (1809-1877) - Lot 178

AUGUSTE BORGET (1809-1877) "Old pagoda between Macao and Canton". "Banks of the Ganges" Pair of drawings, drawing and ink Signed and titled lower right and lower left Under glass, framed H_38 cm W_27 cm (when viewed) Rousseurs. One pane broken. Original drawings that must have been used for the illustrations in the book "La Chine et les Chinois". From 1836 to 1840, Auguste Borget made a long trip around the world, during which he spent ten months in China (Macao, Canton, Hong-Kong), and brought back numerous drawings, which he used to illustrate two books in particular: La Chine et les Chinois (1842), of which his friend Balzac wrote a glowing review, and La Chine ouverte by Emile Daurand-Forgues (1845). Baudelaire himself recognized Borget's talent in his review of the 1846 Salon.