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Watercolor sketch of a hot air balloon launching in a town square with spectators and townhouses.

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Lancement d'une montgolfière, Frédéric Anatole Houbron (1905), Musée Carnavalet, Paris. Via artnap.com

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A watercolor and pencil drawing shows a large pale balloon with red and blue tricolour bands rising above a town square filled with spectators. Stone townhouses and trees frame the scene, and a seated man in a dark coat and hat watches at the right. The work is catalogued as "Lancement d'une montgolfière" by Frédéric Houbron, dated 1905, and held by the Musée Carnavalet, Paris.

Museum record: Musée Carnavalet, Paris