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Étienne Léopold Trouvelot
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A century before the Hubble Space Telescope, the French artist and astronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, born on this day in 1827, captured the cosmos in his stunning astronomical drawings.

A century before the Hubble Space Telescope, the French artist and astronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, born on this day in 1827, captured the cosmos in his stunning astronomical drawings.

On this day in 1878, there was a total eclipse of the sun and Étienne Léopold Trouvelot captured it in one of his stunning and revolutionary 19th-century astronomical drawings.

On this day in 1878, there was a total eclipse of the sun and Étienne Léopold Trouvelot captured it in one of his stunning and revolutionary 19th-century astronomical drawings

The splendor of the cosmos in a trailblazing 19th-century marriage of art and science by the great French artist and astronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.
Available as a high-quality restored print with proceeds benefiting the Harvard Observatory,...

The splendor of the cosmos in a trailblazing 19th-century marriage of art and science by the great French artist and astronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.

Available as a high-quality restored print with proceeds benefiting the Harvard Observatory, where Trouvelot did his most significant work. 

Absolutely gorgeous 19th-century astronomical drawings of planets, nebulae, eclipses, and other cosmic wonders by the visionary French artist and astronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.
Available as a high-quality restored print with proceeds...

Absolutely gorgeous 19th-century astronomical drawings of planets, nebulae, eclipses, and other cosmic wonders by the visionary French artist and astronomer Étienne Léopold Trouvelot

Available as a high-quality restored print with proceeds benefiting the Harvard Observatory, where Trouvelot did his most significant work.