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- Photo A. Franchella
- © Inventaire du Patrimoine
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Eugène-Benoît Baudin elaborated a freely-worked painted décor over the full height of the stairwell, into which daylight enters through a bay window which has unfortunately lost its original mottled and patterned glass panes. The composition incorporates empty areas and the hanging flowers do not mingle with the row of Indian corn depicted on the lower part of the walls. Tradition has it that a farmyard caricaturing members of the family did in fact complement the plant motifs but, in 1978, the restorer could only reveal a few stenciled outlines ; on the other hand, he did find the billiard balls painted on the ceiling and depicting one of the favorite pastimes of the master of the house. |