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Dimensions : 51 cm by 36 cm.
The sculpture of Apollo (Courance Castle park) seen from behind.
Artist : To be determined .
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The Château de Courances, located in the commune of Courances 47 kilometers southeast of Paris in the French Gâtinais and the department of Essonne in Île-de-France, has been classified as a historic monument since June 27, 19831.
Historical
In 1552, Côme Clausse, notary and secretary to the King, acquired from the Lapite family a stately home located in Courances, at the western end of the Fontainebleau forest.
When he died in 1558, the land was allocated to his youngest son Pierre, secretary of the Chamber of Accounts, then to his grandson François, who ceded it in 1622 to Claude Gallard, notary and secretary to the King.
During the First World War, the castle housed an 80-bed hospital, the Auxiliary Hospital of the Society for the Relief of Military Wounded Persons (HASSBM) No. 212.
Architecture
It was undoubtedly Claude Gallard who built an "H" plan castle raised on a quadrangular platform surrounded by a moat, known from engravings by Israel Henriet and Israel Silvestre (around 1650).
In the 18th century, the castle was brought up to date first by Anne-Catherine Gallard, widow of Nicolas Potier de Novion, who opened the main courtyard by demolishing the wall and the entrance portico, then by her granddaughter Léontine-Philippine de Novion and her husband Aymar de Nicolay, president of the Chamber of Accounts of Paris, who modernized the castle (1775-1777) by opening new bays and adding a large pediment to each facade.
Passed to their son Théodore de Nicolaï, peer of France, the castle was abandoned after the Revolution of 1830, then sold by his children in 1872 to the Berlin banker Baron Samuel de Haber. It was for the latter that the architect Hippolyte Destailleur undertook the restoration of the castle in the Louis XIII style.
The work campaign carried out from 1873 to 1884 appears
Historical
In 1552, Côme Clausse, notary and secretary to the King, acquired from the Lapite family a stately home located in Courances, at the western end of the Fontainebleau forest.
When he died in 1558, the land was allocated to his youngest son Pierre, secretary of the Chamber of Accounts, then to his grandson François, who ceded it in 1622 to Claude Gallard, notary and secretary to the King.
During the First World War, the castle housed an 80-bed hospital, the Auxiliary Hospital of the Society for the Relief of Military Wounded Persons (HASSBM) No. 212.
Architecture
It was undoubtedly Claude Gallard who built an "H" plan castle raised on a quadrangular platform surrounded by a moat, known from engravings by Israel Henriet and Israel Silvestre (around 1650).
In the 18th century, the castle was brought up to date first by Anne-Catherine Gallard, widow of Nicolas Potier de Novion, who opened the main courtyard by demolishing the wall and the entrance portico, then by her granddaughter Léontine-Philippine de Novion and her husband Aymar de Nicolay, president of the Chamber of Accounts of Paris, who modernized the castle (1775-1777) by opening new bays and adding a large pediment to each facade.
Passed to their son Théodore de Nicolaï, peer of France, the castle was abandoned after the Revolution of 1830, then sold by his children in 1872 to the Berlin banker Baron Samuel de Haber. It was for the latter that the architect Hippolyte Destailleur undertook the restoration of the castle in the Louis XIII style.
The work campaign carried out from 1873 to 1884 appears