Amiens: The House Of Sagittarius Around 1930, By Fernand Fortuné Truffaut

Magnificent watercolor representing the house of Sagittarius in Amiens, before the Second World War, by Fernand Fortuné Truffaut (1866-1955). Born in Trouville, he studied at the fine arts school of Rouen, and will be the student of Rubé, Chaperon and Jambon. He settled in Paris, and will be an illustrator in love with its monuments and its panoramas. One of his watercolors is kept at the Pompidou center. Here the artist was fascinated by the singular geometry of this house of the renaissance, emblematic monument of Amiens, and played on the shimmering of the reflections of the sun on the multitude of glass tiles and the lace of stone sculpture. Seriously damaged by the bombings in 1940, it was dismantled after war , stone by stone, and moved a few hundred meters, to be attached to the Logis du roi. The watercolor is in perfect condition in its original frame. It is very fresh, its polychromy intact. The frame is to be made with  new patina .
view on sight: 26 cm x 37 cm.