Recent research has shown that the French painter Augustin Desombres, who was a pupil of Gérôme, spent the last years of his life in Schaerbeek, working in this studio. A collection of his paintings, drawings and pictures have been found in the house, as well as a short silent movie of which the author is unknown.
The gigantic camera in the adjoining room also belonged to him.
The chart-room
In homage to Eugène Autrique and his passion for cartography this room has been arranged to situate the Maison Autrique in the environment of Schaerbeek and Brussels, in cooperation with the National Institute for Geography.
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