Staircase of the Grand Tower, Harcourt Castle

Godefroy Engelmann|Jean-Baptiste Isabey

1818 · Lithograph; second state of two · Drawings and Prints

A man, holding a cane and hat in one hand, helps a woman down a limestone stairway which is lit from the left by a ray of light that pours onto the figures through a small arrow-slit window. Both figures are dressed in Louis XIV style clothing. The stairwell depicted here is located in the Harcourt castle (Lillebonne, France).This print was part of a series entitled 'Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France' which is a survey of France's national heritage conducted by Charles Nodier, Baron Taylor and Alphonse de Cailleux, and is abundantly illustrated by lithographs. This ambitious project, which required sending about a hundred artists to different regions of France, was published in a series of twenty-one volumes between 1821 and 1878.

Artist

Godefroy Engelmann|Jean-Baptiste Isabey

Date

1818

Medium

Lithograph; second state of two

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

The Elisha Whittelsey Collection. The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963