Jean-Baptiste Arnout (1788-c.1865) (artist and lithographer)
Lemercier (printer)
Vue de la Bourse
Anaglyphic Company, London and Jeannin, Paris: May 15, 1844
Hand-colored lithograph
11.25 x 16.5 inches, image
15 x 20.5 inches, overall
$750
Vue de la Bourse
19th Century Lithograph of French Stock Exchange
19th Century Lithograph of French Stock Exchange
View of the Palais Brongniart, which housed the Paris Bourse, the main French stock exchange, from 1826 until the end of the 20th century. The neoclassical building was commissioned by Napoleon and designed by the architect Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart. It is located between the Place de la Concorde and the Louvre. Today the Palais Brongniart serves primarily as a conference center, though financial announcements are still made there. Since 2000, the Paris Bourse has been known as Euronext.
Jean-Baptiste Arnout (Arnout père) was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Dijon, he was a student of Devosge and worked and exhibited in Paris from 1819 to 1865. Arnout is known for his watercolors of buildings, cathedrals and monuments of his native France and of sites he painted on trips to Belgium, Italy and Spain. He made many of these into lithographs. His son Louis Jules Arnout (Arnout fils) was also a painter and lithographer.
Full publication information: Dessiné d'après nature & lith. par Arnout père. Imp. par Lemercier. Paris, publié par Jeannin, Place du Louvre, 20. London. pub. 15 May 1844 by the Anaglyphic Company, 25 Berners St. Oxford St.
Condition: Generally very good, recently professionally cleaned and deacidified, with some light remaining toning, wear, soft creases. Minor remaining tape residue and abrasions, far upper margin, and repaired small chip, right margin, easily can be matted out.
References:
Bénézit, E. Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs et Graveurs. France: Librairie Gründ, 1966. Vol. 1, p. 249.
"Bourse de Paris." Paris by Europe-Cities. 2004-2011. http://www.europe-cities.com/en/786/france/paris/place/4103_bourse_de_paris/ (19 October 2011).
"Palais Brongniart (Former Paris Stock Exchange)." Yahoo! Travel. 2011. http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-10396737-bourse_de_paris_la_paris-I (19 October 2011).