André Castaigne

[5] He had his first exhibition in Paris in 1884, from whence his painting Dante et Béatrice went on tour to New Orleans where it received a great deal of attention.

In 1887 he exhibited the huge painting, five yards by four, The Deluge, which later was placed in the municipal gallery of his native city Angoulême.

His first work of this type was The Forty-Niners' Ball in the Century Magazine for May 1891, followed by The Bowery in December of the same year.

These include Mammouth Cave (1898) and Niagara Falls (1899)[6] He also visited Canada at this time and produced Canadian Rapids from the Island.

[6] In France, he published Fata Morgana (1904),[7] a novel dealing with the art life of Paris and illustrated by himself.

[3] During a six-year period in France where he divided his time between a winter studio in Paris and a summer studio in Angoulême, he illustrated William Milligan Sloane's The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte, Richard Whiteing's Paris of To-Day and Bertha Runkle's The Helmet of Navarre.

Due to complications as a result of not obeying medical orders and getting out of bed, this proved fatal.