Rigaud, French Riviera

 

Augusta Payne Rathbone

  1897 - 1990 (biography)

1936  

etching and color aquatint 

10 1/2 x 14 1/2" platemark 

pencil, lower right 

artist's proof 1/2 

titled in pencil, verso 

 

cream wove 

published 

artist 

15525 

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Riguad is a an ancient hilltop village overlooking the Cians Gorge in the Alpes-Maritimes department of southeastern France. Above the village is the ruins of its medieval fortress, a former command post of the Templars. Rigaudum is cited in the 13th century as a fiefdom. Rigaud was one of the four Templar settlements in the Var Valley. The population of Rigaud in 2008 was just over 200. Augusta Rathbone discovered and sketched the village on one of her many excursions throughout France.