In a amazing stoke of luck, I found five additional sketches from Henri's trip today mixed in with the artwork of my great aunt. I hope their discovery bodes well for the retrieval of the lost album of 135 sepia drawings. Four of the drawings are from...

One of Henri's sepia drawings – Tacubaya, Mexico, 1853 Throughout Henri's correspondence and journal from 1852-53, he speaks frequently about his artwork. To date I have found only five drawings. Yesterday I found proof that there were many, many...

In some old family books I came across a children's world book and atlas from 1866. At first it seemed fairly ordinary for the time until I came to the breathtaking lithographs at the back. I have made reproductions for the plates that concern Latin...

On my recent trip to Switzerland I visited the Bern Botanical Institute. I knew that Henri helped his father Albert de Büren give his entire collection of dried plants to the city of Bern in 1872. After doing some research I was told that they would...

While in Neuchâtel last week I met with the Ethnological Museum. I knew that Henri had donated the Mundurucú headdress to the museum (cited in an previous post) that he aquired in Brazil, but I was unaware that it was part of a full ensemble, with...