luxury loft for sale Rouen, France

Located in ROUEN city centre, in a green setting away from prying eyes, this chapel was built in the 19th century and extended in 1926 by architect Jean Leprince. With a floor area of 500 m² and a garden of 470 m², this property is listed in its entirety on the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments. Adorned with a fresco painted on canvas by the great Maurice Denis in 1930, this unusual property is less than 5 minutes' walk from all amenities. Maurice DENIS was a famous French artist of the early 20th century, best known for his role in the artistic movement known as Les Nabis. Born on 25 November 1870 in Granville (Manche) to a father who worked for the western railways and a mother who was a milliner, he lived in Saint-Germain-en-Laye until the end of his life in 1943. Already practising drawing and painting, he enrolled at the Académie Julian in 1988, where he met Sérusier, Ibels, Bonnard, Roussel, Ranson, Vuillard, Seguin and Verkade, with whom he formed the Nabis group, a post-impressionist movement interested in spirituality, of which he was the theoretician. He practised his art through family scenes, religious scenes and landscapes of Italy and Brittany. In France and abroad, he created large-scale secular decorations (Ivan Morosov's music room in Moscow, the cupola of the Champs-Élysées theatre in Paris, etc.) and religious decorations (Sainte-Marguerite church, etc.).