#MB95
1877
Watercolour ca. 12.5 x 20.5 cm (5 x 8 in). Titled and dated in black ink in image. Mounted on laid paper. Overall a very good watercolour.
Attractive watercolour showing a native settlement on one of Bangkok's canals. Chrétien Édouard Caspari was a French hydrographer and astronomer. He graduated from École polytechnique in 1860, and in 1862-1902 he worked as a hydrographer and engineer in France, the Caribbean and French Indochina (the Gulf of Siam, Annam and Tonkin). Caspari was the author of an astronomy textbook for the Service Hydrographique de la Marine, and of numerous scientific papers, some relating to Indochina. He was awarded with the Prix Montijon of the French Academy of Sciences (1878), and in 1905 he became President of the Astronomical Society of France.
