Hotel de Ville, Louvain, from Facsimiles of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany
1833 · Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory chine, laid down on ivory wove paper · Plate: 42.5 × 28.5 cm (16 3/4 × 11 1/4 in.); Sheet: 44.5 × 31 cm (17 9/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
Prout, Hotel de Ville, Louvain, from Facsimiles of Sketches made in Flanders and Germany, 1833. Lithograph in black on grayish-ivory chine, laid down on ivory wove paper.
Prout, Hotel de Ville, Louvain. Choose a passage and copy its broken line.
The Art Institute of Chicago · The Leonora Hall Gurley Memorial Collection
How to look at a Prout
- Find a long straight edge in a Prout and notice it is not a single line. Count the breaks.
- Look at the figures. Their heads line up with the horizon. Their feet tell you how far away they stand.
- Find the darkest doorway and the lightest sunlit wall. They are nearly always touching.
Draw this
4 studies of this work
Master studyProut
Hôtel de Ville, Louvain
A passage of Gothic facade in the broken line
2.5h- Foundation
Corot · Unit 1
The six marks
A sampler sheet of every hatch family
0.5h - Foundation
Prout · Unit 4
The broken line
Copy a Prout wall, then draw an old wall near you
1h - Foundation
Meryon · Unit 5
Mouldings and cast shadows
A cornice in four bands, and a buttress that casts
1h
