Search Results: Titles starting with P from Librairie Raphaël Thomas

India ink and wash. 43.7 x 55.5 cm.
Title in french under the drawing: "Vüe Perspective du pont sur le Fleuve du Pô devant Pavie, prise du point Marqué sur le plan, Lettre (L)." Signed below: "Pavie, le Germinal an 5ème de la rép[ubli]que Française une et indivisible. Le chef de Bataillon du Génie des ponts et chaussées de l'Armée d'Italie, Commandant à Pavie, [Pouget]." The plan mentioned in the title is not present here.
Drawing created during the first Italian campaign of Napoleon Bonaparte, pitting the French Army of Italy against Austrian and Sardinian forces.

Project for the decoration of the Choir of the Royal, Curial & Parish Church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, Paris.
Pen and brown and green ink wash. 43.4 x 29.5 cm, in a frame of 56 x 42.5 cm. Signed at the bottom left: "LeBon architect du Roy. Jur."
This unpublished sheet depicts a decoration project for the choir of the Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois church in Paris. Executed by Pierre-Étienne Le Bon, this proposal with refined ornamentation is part of an iconographic program dedicated to the Resurrection of Christ.
Pierre-Étienne Le Bon was born in Paris around 1700 and died in 1754. A student of Jean-Sylvain Cartaud, he was the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1724 and the first Grand Prix the following year. He was a resident in Rome from 1728 to 1731.
Bibliography:
Michel Gallet, Les Architectes parisiens du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, éditions Mengès, 1995.
Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, Les Prix de Rome, Concours de l'Académie royale d'architecture au XVIIIe siècle, Berger-Levrault, École nationale… Read More

Title in french: " Pièce décorative en Feux de Lances exécutée à Paris le 14 juillet 1889 ".
Watercolor and gouache. Dimensions are 29.5 x 61.5 cm, in a modern frame of 50 x 81 cm. The title is given on a cartouche taken from an older frame.
Bastille Day, celebrated on July 14, has been the French national day since 1880. July 14, 1889, is a very special day. The centenary of the French Revolution was celebrated during the ongoing Universal Exposition, which opened its doors on May 15 around the Eiffel Tower, inaugurated on March 31. A lavish banquet and a ball were organized at the Palais de l'Industrie, and a grand fireworks display was offered by the City of Paris, shot by the Ruggieri company (fireworkers for King Louis XV from 1739) who had already launched the first fireworks from the Eiffel Tower on July 14, 1887, before its completion. Other fireworks were also launched that evening: at the Bois de Boulogne and Vincennes, Buttes Chaumont, Parc Montsouris, the tip of Île Saint-Louis, or… Read More