Fondation Custodia Gifted Parisian Views
January 26 2021
Picture: Fondation Custodia
Posted by Adam Busiakiewicz:
The Fondation Custodia in Paris has been gifted two landscapes by their former Treasurer Gerhard Greidanus. The gift was made in memory of the late Jan Maarten Boll, who was an avid collector and former President of the Rembrandt Association in the Netherlands.
The two works are by Pierre-Antoine Demachy (1723–1807) and Pierre-Antoine Mongin (1761–1827). Demachy's view of the roof of the Louvre (above) dates to roughly 1769-1785, before this part of the building was modified. The other work by Mongin depicts a view of rooftops in Paris made in the year 1823.
