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Francisque de Saint-�tienne was born in Montpellier in 1824. A landscape painter and etcher, Saint-�tienne was a pupil of Jules Laurens. He exhibited at the Salon de Paris from 1857-1863, also exhibiting four landscape etchings at the International Exhibition in London in 1862. He also published etchings with Cadart's Soci�t� des Aquafortistes. My etching dates from 1860, and is I think fairly representative of his work. It shows the untamed wildness of the Balearic island of Formentera, before any thought of today's tourism. Francisque de Saint-�tienne, Formentera Etching, 1860 In 1863 Francisque de Saint-�tienne returned to Montpellier from Paris, and ceased to send work for exhibition in the capital, exhibiting only in the regional exhibitions of the Soci�t� artistique de l'H�rault. His name is sometimes spelled Francisc de Saint-�tienne; his true name was Louis Francisc Hippolyte Bessodes de Roquefeuille. He died in Montpellier in 1885.