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Victor Petit — Architecture Pittoresque ou Monuments des XVeme. Et XVIeme. Siecles: Chateaux de France des XV et XVI Siecles: Pl. 76, Pavillon De Chaumont (Saône et Loire)
Victor Petit

Architecture Pittoresque ou Monuments des XVeme. Et XVIeme. Siecles: Chateaux de France des XV et XVI Siecles: Pl. 76, Pavillon De Chaumont (Saône et Loire)

1860

Renaissance elegance meets medieval foundations in this architectural study from Burgundy. The lithograph's tonal subtlety emphasizes the pavilion's refined proportions and decorative stonework.

Medium
lithograph with tint stone, from portfolio of 100 lithographs with tint stone
Location
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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Charles Meryon

French · b. 1821

Meryon produced highly detailed architectural prints of French structures with similar tonal precision and reverence for historic stonework. His etchings share the same documentary elegance and moody atmospheric quality seen in this Burgundian pavilion study.

Eugène Viollet-le-Duc

French · b. 1814

Viollet-le-Duc created meticulous architectural illustrations of French Renaissance and medieval châteaux with the same scholarly attention to decorative stonework and refined proportions. His graphic work documents French heritage monuments in a tonal style directly comparable to this lithograph.

Samuel Prout

British · b. 1783

Prout specialized in lithographic studies of European Renaissance and Gothic architecture rendered in warm sepia tones with careful attention to carved stone surfaces and picturesque composition. His documentary approach to historic continental buildings closely mirrors the mood and technique of this Chaumont pavilion print.

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Victor Petit, Architecture Pittoresque ou Monuments des XVeme. Et XVIeme. Siecles: Chateaux de France des XV et XVI Siecles: Pl. 76, Pavillon De Chaumont (Saône et Loire), 1860

Renaissance elegance meets medieval foundations in this architectural study from Burgundy. The lithograph's tonal subtlety emphasizes the pavilion's refined proportions and decorative stonework.

Medium
lithograph with tint stone, from portfolio of 100 lithographs with tint stone
Year
1860
Seen at
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Related themes

French, Sepia Tone, Château, 1860s, Historical, French Heritage, Architecture, Lithograph, Tinted Stone, Renaissance

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Charles Meryon, Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Samuel Prout

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