Staircase of the Grand Tower, Harcourt Castle
Jean-Baptiste Isabey French
Printer Godefroy Engelmann German
Not on view
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.
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