[Architecture]. [Orléans]. THORY (A.); after Charles Pensée. - Lot 91

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[Architecture]. [Orléans]. THORY (A.); after Charles Pensée. - Lot 91
[Architecture]. [Orléans]. THORY (A.); after Charles Pensée. “Former Hôtel-Dieu in Orléans, as seen in 1842” (Loiret). [Second half of the 19th century]. Watercolor. 39 x 53 cm (image size), in a frame measuring 69.5 x 83 cm. Pinholes. Minor loss of gilding on the left molding of the frame. Reproduction signed “A. Thory after C. Pensée” of a watercolor held in the General Inventory of the Centre-Val-de-Loire Region. The inventory’s artwork record (item IM45003302, examined in 2011 as part of a study on the regional hospital heritage of Orléans) specifies that “A watercolor bearing strong similarities, also painted by Charles Pensée (1799–1871), signed and dated 1842, is held at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Orléans (inv. 941).” The old Hôtel-Dieu of Orléans, which had fallen into disrepair, was demolished between 1845 and 1848 to clear the area around the cathedral, in accordance with the alignment plan proposed by Gisors in 1813. The watercolor shows, behind the building, the two towers of Sainte-Croix Cathedral and its former spire. This view was reproduced as a lithograph by Lemercier in the book *Histoire architecturale d’Orléans* (Orléans, Gatineau, and Darnault-Morand, 1849).
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