View of Cordoba. françois Antonie Bossuet (1840-1845)
François Antoine Bossuet (1798-1889) was born in Ypres and trained in the Brussels Academy where he became a teacher in 1855. He wrote a perspective treatise in 1843 and was famous for his 'vedute' paintings especially from Italy and Spain.Bossuet was the teacher of Jean-BaptisteVan Moer (1819-1884), another famous vedute artist, and François Etienne Musin (1820-1888).
This painting is a typical example of Bossuet large production of 'vedute' paintings he executed mostly in Spain and Italy. This composition belongs to a group of several 'vedute' ispired by the southern Spanish countryside, especially Seville and Cordoba.