A selection of French portraits of early explorers and navigators.

Louis Antoine Bougainville, born 1729
James Cook, born 1728
Jean-François de Galaup La Pérouse, born 1741,
Nicholas Baudin, born 1750,
Frederick William Beechey, born 1796,
Louis Isidore Duperry , born1780,
A F de Kreusenstern, born 1770,
Dumont d’Urville, born 1790