exploration artist, was the official artist on board La Coquille on the expedition under the command of Lewis Isidore Duperrey which left France on 11 August 1822 and visited the Pacific and eastern Malaysian islands, New Guinea, Australia and New Zealand before returning to Toulon in March 1825. La Coquille dropped anchor in Port Jackson on 17 January 1824 and the expedition members spent two months in Sydney and environs. Works by Le Jeune of Australian interest in the official account of the voyage include Cascade du Port Praslin (Nouvelle-Irlande) and Naturels de la Nouvelle Irlande , both of which, like many of the places in the four atlas volumes which accompanied Duperrey’s account, were drawn in collaboration with Antoine Chazal (who had not been on the voyage). A journal and 138 pages of drawings by Le Jeune, many unpublished, are held in the Service Hydrographique of the Ministére de la Marine, France.
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- Date written:
- 1992
- Last updated:
- 2011
