Cour Du Mûrier At The école Des Beaux Arts In Paris Watercolor Architecture Drawing 19th

19th century French school
Pen and watercolor drawing
36x26cm
With frame
50x40cm
Signed lower right
nice work , artist to be identified 
condition: good condition, minimal damage to the frame

The so-called mulberry courtyard of the School of Fine Arts corresponds to the former cloister of the Petits-Augustins convent, founded by Queen Margot at the very beginning of the 17th century. At the end of the Revolution, the convent became the Museum of French Monuments, whose management was entrusted to the young painter Alexandre Lenoir (1761 – 1839). In 1816, Louis XVIII closed the museum and assigned the place to the Royal School of Fine Arts; the architect François Debret (1777-1850), then his brother-in-law and student Félix Duban (1797-1870) decided to make the buildings into a palace of Italian and neoclassical inspiration. The square courtyard of the mulberry tree, which owes its name to the mulberry tree from China that Alexandre Lenoir planted there, is located to the right of the main courtyard of the school, when you enter it from rue Bonaparte; In 1836, Félix Duban gave it the appearance of a Pompeian atrium, notably by installing a fountain in the center. The walls of the covered gallery are decorated with a replica of the Panathenaic frieze of the Parthenon, which can be seen through the arcades.