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(With frame: 540 mm x 720 mm &#8211; 2<sub>1\/8<\/sub> x 2<sub>13\/16<\/sub> in.)<\/p>\n<p>Antique gilded wood frame.<\/p>\n<p>Michel-Fran\u00e7ois Pr\u00e9aulx was a French painter and draftsman active in the Ottoman Empire and Greece at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries. Working in Constantinople beginning in 1796, he is known for his topographical views and architectural surveys of antiquities commissioned by prominent Western European travelers and diplomats (notably the Count of Choiseul-Gouffier and the English archaeologist John Tweddell).<\/p>\n<p>This sheet illustrates the artist\u2019s picturesque and neoclassical taste for the ruins of ancient Greece and the Levant, combining the precision of architectural documentation with an Orientalizing genre scene.<\/p>\n<p>It depicts the \u201cUnderground Monument\u201d (or \u201cPalace of Priam\u201d) in Alexandria Troas (in the present-day province of \u00c7anakkale, Turkey).<\/p>\n<p>Located in the Troad (western Anatolia), this large ruined Roman complex was commonly referred to in the early 19th century by Western travelers by the picturesque name <em>\u201cPalace of Priam ,\u201d<\/em> although it is in fact the remains of the Roman baths or a cryptoporticus\/heroon in Alexandria in the Troad (<em>Eski Stamboul<\/em>). The imposing vaulted structures built of cut stone (including a main barrel vault housing a basin\/sarcophagus or an altar) are characteristic of the topographical and archaeological surveys conducted on site by Michel-Fran\u00e7ois Pr\u00e9aulx around 1801 (notably during his expeditions to the Levant with the British scholar Edward Daniel Clarke and on behalf of the Count of Choiseul-Gouffier).<\/p>\n<p>A version similar to this subject, executed by Pr\u00e9aulx and titled <em>*Interior of the Palace of Priam*, Alexandria Troas<\/em>, of comparable dimensions, is held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London <a href=\"https:\/\/collections.vam.ac.uk\/item\/O148082\/interior-of-the-palace-of-watercolour-pr%C3%A9aulx-michel-fran%C3%A7ois\/\">(inv. SD.821)<\/a>, and other plates from this series appear in the inventory of surveys of the Troad published during the Empire and the Restoration.<\/p>\n<p>Condition report: Very good condition. 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