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Watercolor of the Institut de France domed building beside the Seine, with workers pushing a cart over stone blocks in the fo

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L'Institut de France, Paris, Thomas Shotter Boys (1830), Wikimedia Commons. Via artnap.com

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The watercolor shows the Institut de France with its blue slate roof, classical columns and dome, set beside the Seine with a footbridge crossing the river. In the foreground, workers push a handcart among scattered stone blocks and wooden barrels. The work is signed Thomas Shotter Boys and dated 1830.

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