{"title":"1830-1880 French Architecture","description":"\u003cp\u003eA refined collection of 19th-century architectural lithographs, where artistry meets documentation. These rare works translate Europe’s monumental heritage into finely detailed compositions, each enhanced by hand-applied colour and preserved as an original artefact of its time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCreated during a time when travel, scholarship, and artistry converged, these works reflect the spirit of the Grand Tour—when artists and architects documented great structures with precision and reverence. 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Paris, c. 1780.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJean-Benjamin de La Borde's \u003cem\u003eVoyage Pittoresque de la France\u003c\/em\u003e (1781–1796) celebrated the kingdom's architectural patrimony at the close of the ancien régime. Begun in the thirteenth century and crowned with its richly traceried west front in the fifteenth, Saint-Gatien embodies the long arc of French Gothic from Rayonnant to Flamboyant — a sequence the engraver renders with antiquarian precision.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured lithograph. Sheet approximately 59.5 × 43.1 cm. 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Published by Couché Editeur, Paris, c. 1800.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Cathédrale Saint-Étienne, built between the thirteenth and sixteenth centuries, is renowned for its richly sculpted west front, one of the masterpieces of French Flamboyant Gothic. Prints such as this, issued by the Parisian publisher Jacques Couché around the turn of the nineteenth century, fed a growing antiquarian appetite for accurate records of provincial monuments at a moment when many were threatened by Revolutionary upheaval.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHand-coloured lithograph. Sheet approximately 56.9 × 42.5 cm. 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