Lot 602
George David Coulon (French/New Orleans, 1822-1904), "Ruins of Versailles Plantation, Chalmette, Louisiana", oil on canvas, unsigned 25 in. x 30 in. E7000-10000 Provenance: Vose Galleries, Boston to prominent Mobile, Alabama Collector. Published: Pennington, Estill Curtis, Look Away: Reality and Sentiment in South Carolina, Spartanburg, South Carolina, Saraland Press, 1989, p. 159; and Sokolitz, Roberta, ed., Calm in the Shadow of the Palmetto & Magnolia, The Charleston Renaissance Gallery, 2003, pp. 80-1. Note: Pierre Denis de la Ronde built the imposing plantation house in 1805. Early skirmishes of the Battle of New Orleans were fought on the plantation grounds. The plantation house became a hospital for the British, and the fatally wounded General Pakenham is thought to have been brought there. Coulon appears to have been attracted to the nostalgic quality of the once-grand plantation, then in ruins, as a symbol of the South's fleeting glories and elusive grandeur at the turn of the century.
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