JOACHIM LEBRETON

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JOACHIM LEBRETON

Post by aukepalmhof » Sat Apr 01, 2017 9:24 pm

This postal issue of Brazil of four stamps of which only one has a maritime theme. It shows us a portrait of Joachim Lebreton, with the voyage from France to Brazil on a sailing ship, the name of the ships is not known, so most probably a ship of that time is depict (1816). The outline of both countries is highlighted in the colors of their flags.
Lebreton was one of the pillars of the French Artistic Mission in Brazil. More info is given on:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joachim_Lebreton

Update: I found on the net as follows:

The controversy surrounding the famous French Mission, triggered a few years after the landing of the artists who composed it, remains topical. On March 26, 1816, the American ship Calphe (other source gives British ship CALPE) docked in Rio de Janeiro. On board was a group of 40 people who had embarked in Le Havre - artists and artisans, accompanied by their families and staff. Like Joachim Lebreton, the leader of the expedition who had just been dismissed from his post at the Institut de France, the artists who arrived in Rio had experienced great success at the height of Bonaparte's Consulate. After the Restoration, stripped of their prestige and their jobs, they looked for a future in other countries.

Most probably the CALPHE or CALPE is depict, but a ship 1n 1816 under that name I could not find, and also not a drawing of painting of the ship, so it looks like that a sailing ship of that time is depicted.


Brazil 2016 $3.55 sg?, scott?
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2016 lebreton sheet.jpg
2016 lebreton R$3.55.jpg

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