biografia di Jean Jacques VIOGET (1799-1855)

Birth place: Switzerland

Death place: near San Jose, CA

Addresses: Yerba Buena, CA, 1837; near San Jose, CA, 1843-55

Profession: Amateur watercolorist

Comments: Vioget served briefly in the French army and was apprenticed to a naval engineer. In 1834 he was commissioned to lay out streets that are now San Francisco's Pacific, Pine and Stockton. He went into business at Yerba Buena as a hotel keeper. He also made some surveys and maps for General Sutter before moving to San Jose. His watercolor of Yerba Buena in 1837 has been reproduced.

Sources: G&W; Van Nostrand and Coulter, California Pictorial, 30-31; Peters, California on Stone; P&H Samuels, 501-02.