Hippolyte Victor Valentin SÉBRON 
  (Caudebec-en-Caux, 1801 – Paris, 1879)

 Interior of the convent

 Ink, pen and wash
 Signed and dated lower left
 27.5 x 20 cm
 1839

 A student of Daguerre from the age of 29, Sebron entered the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the teaching of Cogniet. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1831 and 1878.
 Initially employed in painting dioramas, he later produced numerous easel paintings, particularly of church interiors and ruins.
 Like Daguerre, Bouton or Granet, Sebron paints detailed views with contrasting lighting effects.
 Sebron was a travelling artist and he brought back numerous views from his many journeys in Europe, around the Mediterranean and in the United States, where he stayed from 1849 to 1855.
 Around 1838 he went to the Spanish Basque Country to work. Four of his works are reproduced to illustrate Baron Taylor's Picturesque Journey to Spain, Portugal and the Coast of Africa. It is very likely that our drawing dated 1839 represents a convent sketched by Sebron during this trip.

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