Armand de Pasmond (XIX century - XIX century)

Armand de Pasmond

Armand de Pasmond was a French naval officer and artist.

Famous is his book Cahier de Costumes Commencé en 1836 et fini en 1840, drawings for which he made while traveling in the Mediterranean, North Africa and Reunion Island. The book contains many images of military uniforms, especially naval uniforms, and of soldiers in Sardinia, Corsica, and Algeria. The album has several landscapes of Morocco and Algeria, which had just, in 1833, become a French colony. With beautiful watercolors and sketches of views of Africa, soldiers and locals, and drawings of accurately drawn ships, this album by Pasmond is a testament to life in Algeria at a particularly important stage in its history.