People:

Guasio-Jobard (lithographer)
Unknown, early 19th century (draughtsman)
C. Quirot (lithographer)
Jean-Louis Pillart (engraver (printmaker))
E. Mazaroz (lithographer)
Malary (engraver (printmaker))
Hubert Rohault de Fleury (architect)
Hubert Rohault de Fleury (draughtsman)
Orazio Foretto, Palermitano (architect)
Paul Guillaume Lemoine (architect)
Académie de médecine (France) (client)
Jean Pollet (architect)
Charles-François Viel de Saint-Maux (architect)
Paul P. Petit (architect)

Title:

Album of drawings and prints for ideal hospitals, drawings for the redevelopment of the École de médecine and the surrounding area, Paris, and record drawings of medical buildings by French and Italian architects

Date:

first half of the 19th century

Description:

- This album contains prints and drawings - primarily design development and presentation drawings - mainly for projects for ideal hospitals and for the unexecuted redevelopment of the École de médecine and the surrounding area in Paris by Hubert Rohault de Fleury. Projects for ideal hospitals include: two block plans for hospitals for 400 patients on the site of Hôtel-Dieu (DR1974:0002:008:002 - DR1974:0002:008:003); nine site plans coloured with wash for hospitals for varying numbers of patients, eight of which are for a site near the barrière de Monceau (DR1974:0002:008:010 - DR1974:0002:008:014 and DR1974:0002:008:017
- DR1974:0002:008:020); five block plans for hospitals with no site indicated (DR1974:0002:008:004 - DR1974:0002:008:008); and plans, sections and elevations, most coloured with wash or watercolour, for a more developed project for an ideal hospital for 1000 to 1200 patients with no site indicated (DR1974:0002:008:022 - DR1974:0002:008:025, DR1974:0002:008:027 - DR1974:0002:008:028). The five other drawings for hospitals included in this album are apparently related to the nine site plans (DR1974:0002:008:015, DR1974:0002:008:016, DR1974:0002:008:021, DR1974:0002:008:029, and DR1974:0002:008:030). Plans, elevations and sections for the redevelopment of the area surrounding the École de médecine include the addition of a second amphitheatre to the École de médecine, an addition to the Clinique de l'École de médecine, the alteration of the École de mosaïque for use as a salle de dissection, and alterations to the École royale gratuite de dessin (DR1974:0002:008:031 - DR1974:0002:008:064). Also included are several designs for a classically-inspired fountain to be located at the entrance to the Clinique de l'École de médecine (DR1974:0002:008:042 - DR1974:0002:008:049), and drawings for the Académie de médecine, an institution which was probably housed at the École de médecine during this period (DR1974:0002:008:065 - DR1974:0002:008:068). The album includes record drawings of medical buildings by other architects: a presentation drawing of the Albergo dei poveri in Palermo, designed by Orazio Foretto Palermitano; tracings from drawings of a project for Hôtel-Dieu in Paris, designed by Charles-François Viel de Saint-Maux; the 1775 Grand Prix project for an École de médecine designed by Paul Guillaume Lemoine; prints of the the Hospice de la charité in Lyon, designed by Jean Pollet, and two hospital projects in Dijon designed by Paul P. Petit (DR1974:0002:008:069 - DR1974:0002:008:077).

Form:
drawings
textual records
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design development drawings
preliminary drawings
presentation drawings (proposals)
record drawings
preparatory drawings

Technique and media:

Prints include two lithographs on wove paper, two etchings/engravings on laid paper, and one engraving on wove paper manuscripts include pen and brown ink, one with graphite, on laid paper

Dimensions:

album: 61,5 x 46,2 x 3,1 cm plate mark (smallest): 10,7 x 18,2 cm plate mark (largest): 20,3 x 59 cm folio (smallest): 25,6 x 44,5 cm folio (largest): 64,3 x 47,6 cm sheet (smallest): 16,2 x 24,6 cm sheet (largest): 106 x 106,6 cm secondary support (smallest): 42,5 x 47,7 cm secondary support (largest): 49,3 x 59,3 cm mat (smallest): 42,5 x 47,7 cm mat (largest): 43,8 x 48,8 cm

Reference number:

DR1974:0002:008:001-077

Drawing Type:

line drawings
mechanical drawings (tool-aided drawings)
finished drawings
freehand drawings
renderings
sketches
tracings

Method of Projection:

perspective drawings
pictorial drawings
scale drawings
plans (drawings)
site plans
block plans
sections (orthographic drawings)
elevations (drawings)

Point of View:

general views
partial views
bird's-eye views
exterior views
interior views

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- This album is bound between album boards covered with marbled paper and a cloth spine stamped with the title in gold. Most of the drawings and prints are bound directly into the album, while many are inserted into the album on guards. Four drawings are laid down on sheets of paper which are inserted in the album on guards, and 15 drawings are locally mounted on album pages. Three drawings, DR1974:0002:008:060, DR1974:0002:008:061 and DR1974:0002:008:073, are unbound.

Inscription:

signed - on DR1974:0002:008:076 and DR1974:0002:008:077, by the architect, on the print, in graphite, l.r.: "A Monsieur Rohault de Fleury / hommage de l'auteur / Paul Petit" signed and dated - on DR1974:0002:008:021 - DR1974:0002:008:023, DR1974:0002:008:027, and DR1974:0002:008:058 - DR1974:0002:008:061, by the architect, in pen and black and brown ink, usually l.r.: with signatures and dates [DR1974:0002:008:021, n.d.] dated, signed and inscribed - on DR1974:0002:008:031 and DR1974:0002:008:032, by the architect, in pen and brown ink, l.r.: with dates and "Rohault / architecte de l'école de médecine" inscribed - on many of the drawings and prints, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink or graphite, usually u.c.: with titles; and throughout: with building or room functions and/or street names inscribed - on DR1974:0002:008:069, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "ALBERGO GENERALE DE POVERI / IN PALERMO / ERETTO NEL ANNO MDCCLXXX / ARCHITETTURA / DI D ORGAZIO FURETTO PALERMITANO"; and c.l. and c.r.: with keys to interior spaces signed - on DR1974:0002:008:076, by the lithographer, in the plate, l.l.: "Dessiné par P.P. Petit Architecte"; b.: "Lith. Guasco-Jobard à Dijon"; l.r.: "E. Mazaroz Lith."; and b.: with the title and a note concerning the construction of the building signed - on DR1974:0002:008:077, by the lithographer, in the plate, c.l.: "Dessiné par Paul Petit, Architecte"; c.r.: "E. Mazaroz Lith.; l.l.: "Dessiné par Paul Petit, Architecte du Dept. et lithographie par C. Quirot"; l.r.: "Imp. Lith. Guasco-Jobard à Dijon"; l. and r.: with notes concerning the arrangement and history of the buildings; and c. and b.: with titles signed - on DR1974:0002:008:075, by the engraver, in the plate below the image, l.l.: "Pollet Arch. inv. et A[?]dift"; and l.r.: "Pillart Sc" signed - on DR1974:0002:008:024 and DR1974:0002:008:028, by the engraver, in the plate below the image, l.l.: "Rohault Inv."; and l.r.: "Malary sculp." inscribed and dated - on DR1974:0002:008:009, by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.c.: "Note de H. [?] Rohault / sur le projet qui vont [?] / ... prob. de 1811 ou 1812" dated - on DR1974:0002:008:010, by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, u.c.: "1810" inscribed and dated - on DR1974:0002:008:035, DR1974:0002:008:052 and DR1974:0002:008:058, by an unknown hand, in graphite, in various locations: "[illeg.] ... avril 1824" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:008:002, by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, u.r.: with notes concerning construction and space calculations; and throughout: with street names

Location:

Paris; France;

Subject:

architecture
topographic

Subject Descriptive Terms:

hospitals
theoretical architecture

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal