LALLEMAND, Jean-Baptiste
(b. 1716, Dijon, d. ca. 1803, Paris)

View of the Château de Montmusard

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Oil on canvas, 89 x 128 cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dijon

The Château de Montmusard, outside Dijon, was built by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806). It shows that Ledoux owed much to Palladio, in his economy of forms and fascination for geometry.