Moody 1939 French Watercolor of Chateau in Countryside butter stamp and noticeable only upon close

and noticeable only upon close inspection

ink and watercolor on laid paper

The leather loop attached to the backside is broken

and I think the combination of the individual portraits and the hand-painting and the gold trim and the whole spectrum of places and characters represented in alphabetic order makes them just truly marvelous

Moody 1939 French Watercolor of Chateau in Countryside butter stamp and noticeable only upon closeThere are handwritten notes in French on the reverse side of this watercolor, dated May 1939, which identify the subject as the facade of Chteau d'Annecy (a castle in the old French town of Annecy) and suggest it was painted on the spot, in stormy weather, contributing to what the writer describes as a bit of a sinister quality. And indeed, I like this watercolor for its moodiness, making the structure feeling like a character in a gothic novel, and