Édouard Auguste Nousveaux

In 1842, the artist Stanislas Darondeau died of an illness contracted in Senegal, after returning from an exploratory expedition there with Governor Édouard Bouët-Willaumez.

Nousveaux, then aged thirty-one, was chosen to replace him; having already displayed an affinity for exotic themes.

In 1850, he turned to making lithographs of Paris, which were poorly received and criticized for being inaccurate or anachronistic.

[4] After this, there are few traces of any significant artistic production,[1] although he did some collaborative work with Le Magasin pittoresque and L'Illustration.

In 1890, Colonel Henri-Nicolas Frey used some of Nousveaux' watercolors to illustrate his book, Côte occidentale d'Afrique : vues, scènes, croquis.