Piron

  • Artist (Painter)
Piron was a painter and naval draughtsman. He was an official draughtsman on the expedition which visited Australia in 1792-93. Piron died at Batavia in 1796.

Citations

  • de Labillardière, J-J., 'Relation du Voyage à la Recherche de La Pérouse’.

  • Beautemps-Beaupré, C. (1807), 'Atlas du Voyage de Bruny-Dentrecasteaux’, Paris, France.

  • Collins, R.D.J. & Ollivier, I., 'Two noble New Zealand savages’, Early Eyewitness Accounts of Maori Life, Volumes 3, 4, Extracts from New Zealand Journals Written on Ships under the Command of d’Entrecasteaux and Duperry, 1783 [sic] and 1824, (transcr. and trans. by Ollivier, I.), Wellington, NZ 1986, appendix III.

  • Dunmore, J. (1965), 'French Explorers in the Pacific’, Volume 1, Oxford, UK.

  • Hamy, E. (1895), 'Notice sur une Collection de Dessins Provenant de l’Expédition de d’Entrecasteaux’, Paris, France.

  • De Rossel (1808), 'Voyage de Dentrecasteaux’, 2 Volumes, Paris, France.

  • (1795), Moniteur Universel, Number 265, June, 13.

  • Archives Nationales, Paris, France (Marine), (BB4 992, BB4 994: 5JJ 3, 5JJ 4, 5JJ 19, 6JJ 2).

  • de Labillardière, J-J. (1799), 'Atlas’, Paris, France.

  • de Labillardière, J-J. (1804), 'Novae Hollandiae Plantarum Specimen’, 2 Volumes, Paris, France.

Initial data sources

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