CHARLES BOSSU DIT MARVILLE (1813-1879) Lot n° 30

Arc de Gaillon, École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1852 Salt paper print of fairly large dimensions, 255x355 mm, mounted on Blanquart-Evrard credited mount, pleasant B-E tonality. The architect Duban had reused architectural and decorative elements found after the ruins of the Revolution, first collected in the Museum of French Monuments, giving the school an undeniable unity. Among the most remarkable of these "re-employments" is the presence of elements from the castles of Anet and Gaillon, whose arch, placed between the entrance and main courtyards, was an integral part of the main facade of the Palais des études before its dismantling in 1977. Since then, the work of Félix Duban has been greatly distorted. A somehow lighter print can be found in the Sam Wagstaff collection, Getty museum.