After a watercolor by Tavernier de Jonquières who painted various religious and secular monuments, with a historian’s eye. His watercolors make it possible to know the appearance of a large number of monuments destroyed during the French Revolution or the First Empire, such as the old Saint-Waast church or the Saint-Médard de Soissons abbey. Other monuments, such as the Château de Pierrefonds, were later restored by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, Tavernier’s drawings making it possible to know their state in the eighteenth century. 175 of his original drawings are kept in the National Library of France.
Many of his watercolors have been transposed into engravings by engravers François-Denis Née and Marie-Alexandre Duparc for the book Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l’ancienne France by Charles Nodier, Isidore Taylor, and Alphonse de Cailleux.