Live auction - Lot 569
[France - Paris]
Hôpital de la Salpêtrière.
1st half 19th c
Hammer price: €
180
€ 200 / 300
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Lot description
Drawing, pen and black ink, grey lavish, velin paper, 26 x 41 cm, unsigned, watermark "John Fellows 1812" (sm. lacuna at lower left corner).
Rare 19th-c. view from the Seine bank, with fishing boats and women doing laundry. A somehow nostalgic image since laundry boats covered the Seine and it was strictly forbidden to wash clothes anywhere but on these boats. The Salpêtrière, originally a gunpowder factory, was by then a renowned neuropsychiatric hospital.
Prov. Weber-Chapuis, Verviers (collector's stamp).
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