By: Erik Desmazières

Medium: Etching, aquatint & roulette
Year: 2013
ImageSize: 24 X 9 inches
Edition Size: 60

Salle Labrouste, côté nord, fragment portrays a dramatic vertical section of the historic Salle Labrouste reading room at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, designed by architect Henri Labrouste. Soaring iron arches, vaulted glass ceilings, and the quiet activity of readers below are rendered with extraordinary precision and atmospheric depth.

Desmazières is internationally recognized for his architectural prints and his celebrated depictions of libraries, where meticulous draftsmanship transforms real spaces into poetic meditations on knowledge, memory, and imagination. Signed, titled, dated, and numbered in pencil.