19th Century Louisiana Painters and Paintings

"Louisiana painting of the nineteenth century may be said to be story-telling documentary. . . . in the eighteen thirties we have a precise recording of hard core reality, flavored with an exuberant romanticism and seasoned with the delicious shudder of the Gothic novel. "Then came the daguerreotype. On January 15, 1839, S. F. B. Morse saw Daguerre's exhibit in Paris and wrote modestly that 'the two great wonders exhibited in Paris are the Daguerreotype and Morse's Electro Magnetic Telegraph.' ". . . From this time on, the influence of the photograph on painting becomes a factor, particularly in some portraiture. . . . Toward the end of the 19th century, photography, painting, and printmaking formed a more or less sanctimonious alliance, from which art has never quite escaped. "The W. E. Groves Collection contains some fifteen hundred paintings, prints, watercolors, daguerreotypes and miniatures, including one hundred and fifty-five portraits and two hundred and seventeen landscapes pertaining to Louisiana." -from the ForewordMartin WiesendangerWiesendanger, Martin is the author of '19th Century Louisiana Painters and Paintings' with ISBN 9780911116533 and ISBN 0911116532.