Étienne BOUHOT (Bard-lès-Epoisses, 1780 - Semur-en-Auxois, 1862) Presumed view of the Bellechasse house, rue Saint-Dominique, 1824 Original canvas by Belot Signed lower left: "Bouhot, 1824 Stamped on the back: "Delarue 32,4 x 24,5 cm Exhibition: Probably Paris, Salon of 1824, n°232. The subject of Bouhot's paintings are often architectural views, perceived from an unusual angle, allowing to apprehend the monument with a new look. This is the case in our painting which represents a view of the convent of the dames chanoinesses du Saint-Sépulcre, a congregation of Augustinian nuns established in 1635 in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, rue Saint-Dominique, the entrance of which is located opposite the rue de Bellechasse. To the east, the convent is separated from a large pavilion by an enclosed courtyard with a recessed façade. It was converted by the nuns into a self-contained house to accommodate tenants and was extended to the south by a gallery. At the end of this gallery and perpendicular to it is a church; it is there that Bouhot placed his easel. The conventual buildings and the students' lodgings were removed between 1790 and 1805. The rest became national property, in order to extend the rue de Bellechasse to the rue de Grenelle. It is a testimony to this process of transformation of the Faubourg Saint-Germain that the painter shows with this view of the convent. The same year, at the Salon of 1824, which turned out to be one of the most important of his career, Bouhot presented a View of the Bellechasse house, rue Saint-Dominique, probably our painting.