Juliette et les Esprits — Patrick Commecy, Montpellier
Patrick Commecy / A-Fresco · trompe-l’œil mural, 2010 · rue Balard, facing Parc Clémenceau, Montpellier, France
Photo: as published on Street Art Utopia (Good Dogs (9 Photos), 28 October 2026). Artwork: Patrick Commecy / A-Fresco.
The house is painted. On a blank wall by Parc Clémenceau, Patrick Commecy and his studio A-Fresco gave six famous people from Montpellier windows and balconies to look out from, and put a Great Dane and a puppy at the foot of the wall. Montpellier’s city magazine dates the trompe-l’œil to 2010. Source Source Checked
Seen Jul 2026. Evidence date: 21 July 2026, when the travel blog Peripleo published a Montpellier street-art walk that describes the mural in the present tense. That is a written listing, not a dated photo; we found no dated photo newer than the studio’s own pictures. Source Reported
💡 4 things to know
- A wink at FelliniCommecy told the city magazine the title nods to Federico Fellini’s 1965 film Giulietta degli spiriti (Juliet of the Spirits). Source Checked
- Six faces from MontpellierAt the windows: writer Léo Malet, botanist Pierre Magnol, singer Juliette Gréco, physician Léopold Nègre, chemist Antoine-Jérôme Balard and botanist Jules Émile Planchon. Source Source Source Checked
- Dogs facing the dog parkThe studio’s page says the six figures look out over Parc Clémenceau “and its dog area”, and shows the two dogs in a detail captioned “Chiens”. Source Checked
- A Silver BrushThe city magazine reported that the mural won the Pinceau d’Argent as the second most beautiful mural of 2010, in a vote on the site trompe-l-oeil.info. Source Reported
📍 Where it is
33 rue Balard, on the edge of Parc Clémenceau, Montpellier, France Source Source Checked
Map pin: the OpenStreetMap address point for 33 rue Balard (43.603954, 3.871244). The button opens a plain map of that address.
🗓️ Sightings
- 2010
City magazine: painted in 2010
- 2011Nov
Montpellier notre ville reports the award
- 20142 Jun
Generation Voyage: at 33 rue Balard
- 202621 Jul
Peripleo street-art walk lists it
Green stamps mark dated photographs; amber stamps mark records or reports; red stamps mark loss. Publication dates are not camera dates.
🗞️ In the sources
Une fresque primée
« J’ai fait un clin d’oeil au film de Federico Fellini réalisé en 1965 : Giulietta degli spriti, l’histoire d’une femme trompée ».
“I made a nod to Federico Fellini’s 1965 film Giulietta degli spiriti, the story of a woman who is deceived.” (Patrick Commecy; the magazine spells the title “spriti”.)
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« Au Parc Clémenceau, un mur est devenu une façade habitée. »
“At Parc Clémenceau, a wall has become an inhabited façade.”
✅ The facts
- Portraits
- Léo Malet (spelled Mallet in the sources), Pierre Magnol, Juliette Gréco, Léopold Nègre, Antoine-Jérôme Balard, Jules Émile Planchon Source Source Checked
- Dogs
- A Great Dane and a puppy at the foot of the wall, shown in the studio’s “Chiens” detail Source Checked
🔗 Related
- Good Dogs (9 Photos) — Street Art Utopia
- Au Fil de Loire — another A-Fresco Artwork File
- All Artwork Files
All sources & image credits
- a-fresco.com — Juliette et les Esprits, Montpellier: the studio’s page, figures and the “Chiens” detail
- encommun.montpellier.fr — Montpellier notre ville no. 362, November 2011, “Une fresque primée” (PDF)
- generationvoyage.fr — Les trompe-l’œil de Patrick Commecy égaient les rues, Florian Colas, 2 June 2014 (updated 7 November 2025)
- peripleo.com — Montpellier street art walk, 21 July 2026
- openstreetmap.org — address point for 33 rue Balard (map pin)
- streetartutopia.com — Good Dogs (9 Photos), 28 October 2026
Photo: as published on Street Art Utopia (Good Dogs (9 Photos), 28 October 2026). Artwork: Patrick Commecy / A-Fresco.
Last checked: 28 October 2026 · How we verify art