Th Defoiss

Th Defoiss is an artist whose verifiable output is traced to an active period around 1900. Lacking contextual data regarding birthplace or biography, scholarly understanding relies primarily on the medium and subject matter of the documented works.

Defoiss specialized in detailed technical drawing, focusing on complex industrial and architectural subjects. All five works currently held in museum collections are drawings, demonstrating mastery of perspective necessary for depicting large-scale infrastructure. These pieces are unified by the title Perspective View from a series of Mines and Factories, suggesting that the artist was engaged in creating a comprehensive, perhaps didactic, suite documenting the growth of early 20th-century industrial landscapes.

The entire known corpus of these detailed, museum-quality works is preserved in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. The holdings establish Defoiss’s position as a recorder of the industrial age. Today, high-quality Th Defoiss prints derived from these drawings are frequently studied for their historical and technical draughtsmanship.