Michel-François Préaulx (early 19th Century)

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Michel-François Préaulx (early 19th Century)

The Gate to the Yena Park; and The Kiliç Ali Pasha Mosque and the Tophane Fountain, Constantinople

watercolour heightened with white on J. Whatman paper dated 1818, unframed
12½ x 20 3/8in. (31.7 x 51.7cm.)
a pair (2)

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It is difficult to identify the Yena or New Park. The Turbes and the Cypresses suggest it could be one of the great cemeteries, perhaps at Scutari.

Tophane is a district outside the Walls of Galata.

Préulx arrived in Constantinople in 1796 as an architect, amongst others, hired to organise the army and navy workshops. He was still in Turkey in 1827, completing drawings for various books, including Constantinople et le Bosphore de Thrace pendant les années 1812, 1813, 1814 et pendant l'année 1827, by General Andreossy, Paris, 1828 and Atlas des promenades pittoresques dans Constantinople et sur les Rives du Bosphore by Charles Pertusier, Paris, 1817.