This lithograph by Victor Petit depicts the Church of the Penitents in Avignon, representing the architectural documentation efforts of mid nineteenth century France. The work exemplifies Petit's systematic approach to recording the picturesque monuments of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, rendered here with the delicate tonal variations characteristic of the tint stone lithographic technique. As one plate from a substantial portfolio of one hundred similar prints, this image contributed to the broader nineteenth century interest in French architectural heritage and the Romantic fascination with medieval and Renaissance structures.