Isidore Dagnan
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Isidore Dagnan, a French landscape painter, was born at Marseilles in 1794, and died in Paris in 1873. Among his pictures, which consist chiefly of views in Southern France, Italy, and Switzerland, are the following:
- Fontainebleau. Palace. View of Lausanne, 1822; View in Dauphiné. 1827.
- Versailles. TrianonGrand TrianonThe Grand Trianon was built in the northwestern part of the Domain of Versailles at the request of Louis XIV, as a retreat for the King and his maîtresse en titre of the time, the marquise de Montespan, and as a place where the King and invited guests could take light meals away from the strict...
. Lake of Geneva, 1822;View of Paris from the Quai de la Cité, 1831 (one of his best works); Banks of the Vigne near Vaucluse; Valley of the Lauterbrunnen, 1841; Petrarch's House; Old Beeches in the Forest of Fontainebleau.