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Victor Petit — Architecture Pittoresque ou Monuments des XVeme. Et XVIeme. Siecles: Chateaux de France des XV et XVI Siecles: Pl. 88, Ancien Château de Barou (Calvados)

Victor Petit

Architecture Pittoresque ou Monuments des XVeme. Et XVIeme. Siecles: Chateaux de France des XV et XVI Siecles: Pl. 88, Ancien Château de Barou (Calvados)

1860

Among the ruins of this Calvados château, romantic decay meets scholarly documentation in lithographic form. The tinted technique enhances the melancholic beauty of crumbling walls partially reclaimed by nature.

Medium
lithograph with tint stone, from portfolio of 100 lithographs with tint stone

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Victor Petit, Architecture Pittoresque ou Monuments des XVeme. Et XVIeme. Siecles: Chateaux de France des XV et XVI Siecles: Pl. 88, Ancien Château de Barou (Calvados), 1860

Among the ruins of this Calvados château, romantic decay meets scholarly documentation in lithographic form. The tinted technique enhances the melancholic beauty of crumbling walls partially reclaimed by nature.

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

Nineteenth Century, Monochrome, French, Château, Ornate, Landscape, Historical, Neoclassical, Architecture, Lithograph

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