Artist

Auguste Mestral

Portrait of Auguste Mestral

French, 1812–1884

Auguste Mestral was a French Realism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Cleveland Museum of Art.

Auguste Mestral (1812–1884), also known as O. Mestral, was a French photographer. He travelled with fellow photographers Édouard Baldus, Henri Le Secq, and Gustave Le Gray in the summer of 1851 to photograph architectural monuments in France at the request of the Commission des Monuments Historiques.

Collections represented

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