Engraving Doge's Palace in Venice - Pierre Gusman

It is to engraving that Gusman owes the discovery of Italy, which certainly changed the course of his life. Indeed, it all began when Gusman received, in 1894, for his engraving Abraham Graphaeus, according to Cornelis de Vos, a travel grant awarded by the Conseil supérieur des beaux-arts to enable him to visit the main museums of Europe.

After Belgium, Holland and Germany, which interest him moderately, he discovered Italy where he spent six months (four in Rome, then two in Pompeii). It was a shock and then he would never stop going back.
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