The Château de Blois hosted seven kings and ten queens, and four facades from four different eras surround its courtyard. That courtyard is the subject of this railway poster by Constant Duval. Duval designed it for the Paris-Orléans railway company around 1920, to bring travellers to the royal châteaux of the Loire Valley.
He specialised in railway posters from 1910 until the nationalisation of the French railways in 1937.
On the poster
The inner courtyard glows in golden light, with the Renaissance spiral staircase on the left. Blue-roofed buildings frame a cream courtyard where small figures in period dress cross the open space. Birds wheel overhead.
About this print
A digitally restored reproduction, printed on 200gsm Enhanced Matte Fine Art paper with pigment inks.

