Rouen: Entrée de la Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais de Justice (Rouen: Entrance to the Room of Lost Steps, Palace of Justice)
This lithograph by Bonington focuses on the Gothic law courts at Rouen, accessed by a wide flight of steps. Figures in seventeenth-century costume converse and go about their business outside.
Artwork Details
- Title: Rouen: Entrée de la Salle des Pas Perdus, Palais de Justice (Rouen: Entrance to the Room of Lost Steps, Palace of Justice)
- Artist: Richard Parkes Bonington (British, Arnold, Nottinghamshire 1802–1828 London)
- Printer: Feillet (French, active 1822–28)
- Date: 1824
- Medium: Lithograph with tint stone; second state of three
- Dimensions: Sheet: 9 1/16 × 8 7/16 in. (23 × 21.4 cm)
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Gift of W. G. Russell Allen, 1923
- Object Number: 23.108.7
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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