Architecture Pittoresque ou Monuments des XVeme. Et XVIeme. Siecles: Chateaux de France des XV et XVI Siecles: Pl. 59, Château De Baclair (Seine inférieure)
1860
This lithograph by Victor Petit documents the Château de Baclair in Seine inférieure as part of his comprehensive portfolio surveying French Renaissance and late medieval architecture. The work employs tint stone lithography to capture the château's architectural details and picturesque qualities, characteristic of the 19th century antiquarian interest in preserving documentation of historic French monuments. Petit's portfolio of 100 such prints served both scholarly and aesthetic purposes, establishing a visual record of significant châteaux from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
- Medium
- lithograph with tint stone, from portfolio of 100 lithographs with tint stone
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Artists in conversation
Charles Meryon
French · b. 1821
Meryon created meticulous architectural etchings and prints documenting historic French structures with the same antiquarian precision and picturesque sensibility found in Petit's château lithographs. Both artists shared a devotion to preserving the visual record of threatened or storied historical monuments through printmaking.
Samuel Prout
British · b. 1783
Prout specialized in lithographs and drawings of medieval and Renaissance European architecture, particularly French châteaux and Gothic structures, rendered with the same atmospheric tonal quality and picturesque aesthetic that defines Petit's tint stone portfolio. His published folios of architectural documentation closely parallel Petit's scholarly and aesthetic approach.
Richard Parkes Bonington
British · b. 1802
Bonington produced highly regarded lithographic studies of French Gothic and Renaissance architectural monuments that combine documentary accuracy with Romantic picturesque mood, directly mirroring the visual and scholarly intentions of Petit's château series. His lithographs of Normandy structures share the same regional French architectural subject matter.
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