# Gothic Chapel

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BOUTON, Charles-Marie](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bouton-charles-marie-r8bdcde6af8c8e9>)
- Date: 1801-1850
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 47 x 39cm

## Commentary

This painting relies on pronounced perspective and crepuscular light to convey a romantic effect that displaces narrative content, evoking the spectacle of the Diorama theatre, developed by Bouton and Louis Daguerre, on a small scale.

## Related artworks

- [First Communion in the Interior of the Crypt of the Church of St Roch, Paris](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/bouton-charles-marie-r8bdcde6af8c8e9/first-communion-in-the-interior-of-the-crypt-of-the-church-of-st-roch-paris-r37ff400312c668>)

## Attribution

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