l & rsquo; expression & laquo; Sketch explorers & raquo; is used for the first time in the small blue in 1899. It can however serve & agrave; to sign a graphic corpus produced during three important companies controlled by the King L & Eacute; Opold II: The Committee; D ' Among the authors of the sketches, drawings, watercolors and paintings were certain collaborators of Henry Morton Stanley, soldiers of the expiration of the E.I.C. and some agents of administration.

These amateur artists have produced a set of images constituting a kind of encyclop & Éacute; that they tried to appropriate and share with each other or with their family. The corpus contains portraits, images of bodies and ornaments, European stations and villages of the Ecuador, Uele, Nile (Enclave de Lado), Katanga and Bas-Congo. There is the reproduction of matters of these rings of these rings, as well as insect, fauna and flora drawings. Some images will have a long life and will be taken by professional artists of colonial art: the river, the canoes, the sunsets, the dances. This complete graphic production is photography, adding color or capturing difficult & agrave; Enter by a technique still limited to & agrave; the poque. & nbsp;

the criteria of the & laquo; Sketch explorers & raquo; help us & agrave; Place their images in a priest; & nbsp;
Images and & Eacte; time. They are also clear on the difficulty; that they are in return for Western artists & agrave; Ma & ICIRC; Trisirche the landscape and, above all, the luminous, in controls which did not feel the same characteristics that the North. & nbsp;

l & rsquo; Douquate; & eacute; The Belgian public is the tone of the palette and the tu -fu -for; The relationship between the images of the field on the ground, the illustrations of the travelers and the photography of not yet & the acute; sufficiently These exceptional funds only require & Ecirc;