On a study trip to Switzerland in 1833–35, he made the acquaintance of the aristocratic painter Maximilien de Meuron, by whose influence he obtained commissions for two panoramas of Lausanne.
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Unlike his friends and colleagues Maximilien de Meuron and Rodolphe Töpffer, he was not enchanted by the snow-capped peaks of the Alps, preferring instead to portray lakes, streams and marshes, notably the rivers Aar, Eure and Marne.
Regiment de Meuron | Maximilien de Meuron | Pierre-Maximilien Delafontaine, ''Portrait of French archaeologist Alexandre Lenoir | Maximilien Globensky |