Homage to the arts

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Louis-Hippolyte Le Bas (French, 1782-1867)
Homage to the arts
signed and dated 'H. Le Bas 1810' (lower right)
pencil and watercolour
9½ x 8 in. (24.1 x 20.3 cm.)

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Lot Essay

Louis-Hippolyte Le Bas was a student of Charles Percier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine. Following the exile of Napoleon, he oversaw the construction of Fontaine's design for the Chapelle Expiatoire - the burial site of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette - between the years 1816 and 1824.
Le Bas taught the History of Architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts (1840-1863) and was an influential figure in the teaching of a new generation of French architects.

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