France – Asselineau, Léon-Auguste. (1808 – 1889).

La Maison Carée, À Nîmes / La France de Nos Jours.

Original hand-coloured lithograph. Paris, F. Sinnett, [1860]. Plate Size: 27.4 cm x 24 cm. Sheet Size: 35 cm x 26.4 cm. Original lithograph. Very good condition with slight amounts of browning to outer margins only.

Wonderful lithographic view of the Maison Carrée, an ancient Roman temple in Nîmes, southern France. It is one of the best preserved Roman temples to survive in the territory of the former Roman Empire. The Maison Carrée inspired the neoclassical Église de la Madeleine in Paris, St. Marcellinus Church in Rogalin, Poland, and in the United States the Virginia State Capitol, which was designed by Thomas Jefferson, who had a stucco model made of the Maison Carrée while he was minister to France in 1785. The passing strollers and gendarme are beautifully hand-coloured to great effect.
No. 215 in the ‘La France de nos Jours’ series.
Léon Auguste Asselineau was a Hamburg-born lithographer, painter and designer in France.

• Keywords: 19th Century · Catalogue Four – International Art · Decorative Original Graphic · France · French History Rare · Lithograph · Original Decorative Art Rare · Roman Architecture · Travel France – Rare
• Inventory Number: 200073AG

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