PORT OF BREST VUE D'OPTIQUE 1760c

VUE PERSPECTIVE D'UN EMBARQUEMENT AU PORT DE BREST

£325

Superb Mint Vue D'Optique of Brest . Scarce view Only other I can find is in Musee Departmental Breton.

View of the port of Brest, with from right to left, the arsenal buildings (artillery stores / rope makers...), the "general store" and its sundial to the south (built in 1745 on the plans of Choquet de Lindu, on the site of the old "royal store" which had burned down), at the back the "clock tower" crowned with a weather vane, in front the "form of Brest", the first basin built with great difficulty in the mudflats of Troulan, then the main street at the bottom of which a construction site is in progress. A wall is being built there and a gate is being erected to facilitate control and prevent fraud.

A detailed inventory of Brest society, numerous characters come to enliven the quayside in different scenes: passers-by, porters, sedan chairs, bathers diving into the water, a dog, soldiers chatting in the foreground - one sitting on a trunk; a line of prismatic markers separates the civilian and the military...

Excellent original hand colour.

Mint condition