The Mill Pool, St Jean de Cole


Sir William Russell Flint

P.R.A., P.R.W.S., R.S.W., R.O.I., R.E.




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'The Mill Pool, St Jean de Cole'
Limited edition of 850
Published; October, 1980.
Image size 20" X 27.25"

St. Jean is a village approximately 12 miles east of Brantome on the river Cole, and due to Napoleon's highway engineers, is a very easy village to miss.
What is apparently the main road goes straight to and over a relatively modern bridge, whereas a hundred yards or so to the side
there is a most charming village square with a little humpback packhorse bridge next to the mill which is the subject of this painting.
It has something of the atmosphere of a Cotswold village but as with many parts of France its anachronistic charm is giving way to
the many benefits of an affluent economy.