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Victor Petit — Architecture Pittoresque ou Monuments des xveme. Et xvieme. Siecles: Chateaux De France des XV et XVI Siecles: Pl. 39, Château De La Motte (Mayenne)

Victor Petit

Architecture Pittoresque ou Monuments des xveme. Et xvieme. Siecles: Chateaux De France des XV et XVI Siecles: Pl. 39, Château De La Motte (Mayenne)

1860

Crumbling towers and overgrown courtyards evoke the melancholy beauty of architectural decay, reflecting 19th-century fascination with ruins as symbols of historical continuity.

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. 39, Château De La Motte (Mayenne), 1860

Crumbling towers and overgrown courtyards evoke the melancholy beauty of architectural decay, reflecting 19th-century fascination with ruins as symbols of historical continuity.

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, French, Château, Historic, Castle, Architecture, Lithograph

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