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[Saône-et-Loire] Sommery Castle at Gilly-sur-Loire, during t…
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[Saône-et-Loire] Sommery Castle at Gilly-sur-Loire, during t…
See original version (French)
Estimate €50 - €100
Voluntary lot
Description
[Saône-et-Loire]
Sommery Castle at Gilly-sur-Loire, during the Second Empire
Graphite drawing on thick paper, titled, 28 x 38 cm.
Extremely rare view of the newly renovated château in the neo-Gothic style between 1863 and 1869, showing the chapel destroyed after 1879.
The land of Sommery was first mentioned in 1208, as belonging to the barony of Bourbon-Lancy. It was owned by the Bourbon-Chavence family, a younger branch of the Sires de Bourbon-Lancy, and later by the Lords of Fontête. At the time of the French Revolution, the château was still owned by this family, in the person of Count Charles-Marie. Sold to the Marquis de Saint Aignan in 1863, the château underwent an initial phase of sober, elegant restoration in the neo-Gothic style, between 1863 and 1869, by Jean-Bélisaire Moreau, architect and inspector of public works in Moulins. A second phase completed the work directed by René Moreau, architect and son of the previous architect, at the beginning of the 20th century. The château belonged to Guy Jacquelot de Chantemerle de Villette, whose father Stanislas had bought Sommery in 1879. In the second phase of restoration, René Moreau removed the chapel and added a new wing of buildings.
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