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Fountainebleau Court Honour
Presented by Lady Weston as part of the Sir Joseph Weston Gift 1908
adults
architecture
cities, towns, villages (non-UK)
colonnade
countries and continents
courtyard
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Fontainebleau, Palace of Fontainebleau
France
gate
man
military
palace
people
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Renaissance
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<p>In the summer of 1840 Müller travelled in France, sketching the great sixteenth-century chateaux in preparation for a volume of lithographs, Müller’s Sketches of the Age of Francis 1st, published the following year. This shows the courtyard at the heart of Francis I’s favourite palace, Fontainbleau.</p><p>Such historical subjects had traditionally been the topic of dry written histories and dull antiquarian illustration. But in the early nineteenth century a market for popular history emerged. Vivid and romantic illustrations like this brought the ‘Olden Times’ to life.</p><p><em>Gallery label, August 2004</em></p>
paper unique watercolour
26 May 2003 – 8 December 2003
2003-12-08
26 May 2003
2003-05-26
Tate Britain (London, UK)
http://www.tate.org.uk/britain/
2003-05-26
British Watercolours: Turner and his Contemporaries around 1840
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Fountainebleau: The Court of Honour
support: 297 × 432 mm
Presented by Lady Weston as part of the Sir Joseph Weston Gift 1908
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<span class="text13">In the summer of 1840 Müller travelled  </span><span class="text0">in France, sketching the great sixteenth-</span><span class="text13">century chateaux in preparation for a volume of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/lithography" title="Glossary definition for 'Lithography'"><span>lithographs</span></a>, </span><span class="text17">Müller’s Sketches of the Age </span><span class="text18">of Francis 1st,</span><span class="text14"> published the      following year. This shows the courtyard at the heart of </span><span class="text13">Francis I’s favourite palace, Fontainbleau.</span><span class="text0">
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<span class="text0">Such historical subjects had traditionally </span><span class="text15">been the topic of dry written histories  and dull      antiquarian illustration. But  </span><span class="text16">in the early      nineteenth century a market </span><span class="text15">
for popular      history emerged. Vivid and romantic illustrations like this brought  the      ‘Olden Times’ to life.</span><span class="text0">  </span>
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adults architecture cities, towns, villages (non-UK) colonnade countries and continents courtyard features Fontainebleau, Palace of Fontainebleau France gate man military palace people periods and styles places Renaissance residential soldier stonework townscapes / man-made features work and occupations