Georges ROSE (1898 - 1951), Vue de l'Aile Louis XII du château royal de Blois, watercolor and charcoal highlights, signed lower right. On reverse: Cachet de la vente de Monseigneur le Comte de Paris - Size (at sight): 26.5 x 41.5 cm - - - Provenance: Succession de Monseigneur le Comte de Paris, Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Monday, October 30, 2000 - - Our work is to be compared with a similar watercolor representing the Château de Chantilly sold at Osenat in Versailles, May 5, 2024, no. 65. It is therefore very probably part of a series offered to the Comte and Comtesse de Paris on the former royal châteaux.

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