François Auguste Péron b. 22 August 1775

  • Artist (Draughtsman)
Naval draughtsman and natural scientist. Appointed student zoologist on the expedition to the South Pacific under the command of Nicolas Baudin which returned to France on 25 March 1804.

Citations

  • Laissus, Y. (June 1978), 'Une naturaliste exemplaire’, in Annales du Musée du Havre 12, .

  • Marchant, L.R.; & Reynolds, J.H. (1966), 'Thomas Nicholas Baudin and Louis-Claude Desaules De Freycinet’, in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, [Pike, D. (ed.)], Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Baudin, N. (1974), 'The Journal of Post-Captain Nicolas Baudin’, Adelaide, SA [Cornell, C. (trans.)].

  • Bonnemains, J.; Forsyth, E.; & Smith, B. (1988), 'Baudin in Australian Waters’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Girard, M. (1857), 'François Péron, Naturaliste, Voyageur aux Terres Australes’, Paris, France.

  • Guillaumin, E. (1937), 'François Péron, Enfant du Peuple’, Moulins, France (reprint, 1982).

  • Horner, F. (1987), 'The French Reconnaissance’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Péron, F. & de Freycinet, L. (1807), 'Voyage des Découvertes aux Terres Australes’, Paris, France (16).

  • (1809), 'A Voyage of Discovery to the Southern Hemisphere’, London, England, UK.

  • Terry, M. (1986), 'Terre Napoléon: An Encounter’, State Library of South Australia catalogue, Adelaide, SA.

  • Wallace, C. (1984), 'The Lost Australia of François Péron’, London, England, UK.

  • 'Annales du Musée d’Histoire Naturelle’, Volumes 4,5,14.

  • 'Journal de Physique’, Volumes 59,61,67,71.

  • Smith, B. (1960), 'European Vision and the South Pacific 1768-1850’, Oxford, UK (2nd edition 1985).

  • (1988), 'Terre Napoléon’, in 'Terra Australis,’ [Eisler, W. (ed.)], Art Gallery of New South Wales catalogue, Sydney, NSW.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870