Frédéric Bourgeois de Mercey
Frédéric Bourgeois de Mercey (20 May 1803, Paris – 6 September 1860, La Faloise) was a French painter, art critic, travel writer, and novelist.
His father was Louis-Frédéric Bourgeois de Mercey [fr], a property manager, originally from Lorraine.
He was interested in landscape art; travelling throughout northwestern Europe from 1828 and becoming the first person to climb the Schalfkogel in 1830.
In the late 1840s, a progressive eye disease gradually forced him to abandon painting as a regular pursuit.
[3] He transferred to the Ministry of State in 1852, where he held a similar position; head of the Division of Fine Arts.
(c. 1856)
