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Temple à la Pensée, dédié à Beethoven, vue en cours de construction (1897).
Another artist discovered whilst searching for something quite unrelated. The Musée d’Orsay are custodians of this drawing by François Garas (1866–1925), and they also have the most substantial appraisal of his career.
François Garas remains a mysterious architect, whose artistic pantheon included Baudelaire and [...]

Not sure how I managed to miss this at Archive.org, a PDF of Pogàny’s lavishly illustrated rendition of Wagner’s Lohengrin from 1913. This followed two earlier Wagner adaptations for Tannhaüser (1911) and Parsifal (1912). A shame about the copyright watermark which blights every page but that’s how it is with these rare book scans. Golden [...]