Description:
" Chais du Docteur Monprofit au Champ " (France, Maine-et-Loire).Pen and watercolor in monochrome with highlights of white gouache on strong paper. 36 x 70.2 cm. Title in the lower left corner, with an indecipherable signature.
Ambroise Monprofit (1857-1922) was a doctor and surgeon from Angers. He served as the mayor of Angers (like his father) from 1908 to 1912 and as a Republican deputy from 1910 to 1914 and from 1919 to 1922. In 1895, he built the cellar of Clos des Sables in the heart of a vast vineyard in the Coteaux-du-Layon appellation, in the municipality of Champ (now a part of the new municipality of Bellevigne-en-Layon).
