Created in the 16th century, on a former site of artisanal tile manufacturing, LE JARDIN DES TUILERIES is the largest and oldest French garden in the City of Lights. Marin Montagut sketches it from an aerial view and accompanied by its most famous accessories, such as its small boats, ducks and hot air balloons. The watercolor illustration is here declined in a wall board.
The decorative wall board was created in collaboration: it was hand-drawn by Marin Montagut and then printed by Antoinette Poisson. Marin created the original drawings himself while respecting the spirit of the 18th century engravings. True to the quality of the materials used at the time, "À Paris chez Antoinette Poisson" then pressed its illustrations sheet by sheet in their Parisian workshop, using a press, on 100% pure rag laid artisanal domino paper handmade in France. Finally, Marin fixed each engraving on two wooden sticks that roll up on themselves like a parchment and close with a grosgrain ribbon in the manner of the handwritten cards of the time.
The limited series in colors, signed and numbered from 1 to 200 for each garden is exclusively hand painted in watercolor, one by one.
