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only known work was a watercolor titled Veue et Perspective de la Nouvelle Orleans dated 1726. Other surveyors, architects, and engineers who visited the French colony also produced drawings to illustrate life in the colony. The best known of these is JeanBaptiste Michel Le Bouteux’s Camp at New Biloxi (1720), Antoine Simon Le Page du Pratz’s woodcuts of the Natchez district (1730s), and Alexandre de Batz’s colored pen-and-ink drawings of various Native American tribes upriver from New 12 COLONIAL THROUGH ANTEBELLUM LOUISIANA SCHOOL OF JOSÉ FRANCISCO XAVIER DE SALAZAR Y MENDOZA Attributed to F. Godefroid Marianne Celeste Dragon, ca. 1795-1810 Oil on canvas; 37 x 30 in. Louisiana State Museum Gift of John T. Block Orleans (1730s). From these subjects can be deduced the important early role of art as the prevailing form of documenting  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=457 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=457 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=1241

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