L'Auberge du Gros Coq a Schopfheim, Duché de Bade / No Room Left

by Eugène Charles François GuÉRard

$300 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine plate from the series 'Les Touristes', which chronicled Guérard's trip through Switzerland, Savoy and Bavaria. Set in a congested street of the German town of Schopfheim, this image depicts several weary travellers arriving at the Gros Coq hotel only to find out that no rooms are available. Born in Nancy, France in 1821, Eugene Guérard was primarily known as a genre and landscape painter, draughtsman, and watercolourist. After briefly studying in the

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