Staircase of the Grand Tower, Harcourt Castle
A man, holding a cane and hat in one hand, helps a woman down a limestone stairway which is lit from the left by a ray of light that pours onto the figures through a small arrow-slit window. Both figures are dressed in Louis XIV style clothing. The stairwell depicted here is located in the Harcourt castle (Lillebonne, France).This print was part of a series entitled 'Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France' which is a survey of France's national heritage conducted by Charles Nodier, Baron Taylor and Alphonse de Cailleux, and is abundantly illustrated by lithographs. This ambitious project, which required sending about a hundred artists to different regions of France, was published in a series of twenty-one volumes between 1821 and 1878.
Artwork Details
- Title: Staircase of the Grand Tower, Harcourt Castle
- Artist: Jean-Baptiste Isabey (French, Nancy 1767–1855 Paris)
- Printer: Godefroy Engelmann (German (born France), Mulhouse 1788–1839 Mulhouse)
- Date: 1818
- Medium: Lithograph; second state of two
- Dimensions: Sheet: 16 5/16 × 10 5/8 in. (41.5 × 27 cm)
Plate: 6 3/4 × 6 7/16 in. (17.2 × 16.3 cm) - Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection. The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
- Object Number: 63.625.112
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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