Maison, rue du Cimetière Saint Benoit
1926
Swedish architect Ferdinand Boberg was obsessed with capturing the soul of cities before they vanished, and this 1926 sketch of a dilapidated Parisian townhouse is a perfect example. Labeled 'Rue du Cimetière St. Benoit,' the drawing shows a crumbling building with a mysterious, blank gable wall looming on the right, looking like a ghost of the neighborhood. Boberg traveled extensively in his later years, documenting old streets that were being demolished or modernized. It’s a melancholic but beautiful record of a Paris that no longer exists, rendered with scratchy, expressive lines that emphasize the texture of the decaying stone.
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