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Condition: Good. Oblong folio .49 x 33cm. Original fabric covers with new goatskin spine. Seven leaves of mounted photographs of the Cabinet de Travail; Salons bleu, rose,& vert and the Messe Rouge. 4 signed in pencil on the mounts by the artist.Victor-François-Eloi Biennourry a French painter and sculptor created trompe-l'oeil cameos for the Palais des Tuileries, The cameos were part of the artwork "Allegory of French Sculpture" located in the palace. Biennourry, who lived from 1823 to 1893, also worked on other projects, including murals in the Church of Saint-Séverin.In 1842, after three years at the Ecole des Beaux-Art under Martin Drolling, the history and portrait painter Biennourry won the Prix de Rome. He was very much in fashion during the Second Empire and decorated the Salon rouge, Salon bleu, and Salon vert in the Tuileries Palace as well as the apartments of the Empress Eugénie and the library of Napoleon III. He also painted many portraits and received commissions for several churches in Paris including Saint-Roch, Saint-Pierre and Saint-Paul de Saint-Séverin, and Saint-Eustache. The present drawing is preparatory for Les Oeuvres de Misericorde, Les Vertus, in Saint-Eustache, painted in 1854. In 1864 Biennourry executed a ceiling for Saint-Etienne-du-Monde. Later he decorated the Galleries des Antiques in the Louvre.Le « Cabinet de Travail » aux Tuileries faisait référence aux bureaux impériaux de Napoléon Ier et Napoléon III, souvent représentés dans des ?uvres d'art. Il n'est plus possible de visiter un tel lieu aujourd'hui car le palais des Tuileries a été détruit, mais une partie de son ameublement, comme l'écritoire de Napoléon Ier, est conservée et exposée au Mobilier national.