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Four portfolios of drawings of Italian views, interior designs, Empire style furniture, military subjects, and other diverse subject matter
Four portfolios of drawings of Italian views, interior designs, Empire style furniture, military subjects, and other diverse subject matter
People:
  • Unknown, France, first half of the 19th century (lithographer)
  • Unknown, France, first half of the 19th century (draughtsman)
  • Hubert Rohault de Fleury (draughtsman)
  • Hubert Rohault de Fleury (architect)
  • Louis de Cormontaingne (engineer)
  • Jean François Joseph Le Cointre (architect)
Title:

Four portfolios of drawings of Italian views, interior designs, Empire style furniture, military subjects, and other diverse subject matter

Date:

printed first half of the 19th century

Description:

The four portfolios of drawings and prints in this group are entitled: Croquis à placer en papier; Croquis divers; Vues d'Italie; and Croquis arrangement de boutiques, de meubles, et de decorations (DR1974:0002:030:001 - DR1974:0002:030:008; DR1974:0002:030:009 - DR1974:0002:030:030; DR1974:0002:030:031 - DR1974:0002:030:050; DR1974:0002:030:051 - DR1974:0002:030:065. -- Porfolio Croquis à placer en papier, comprises three unidentified topographical views in graphite, a drawing of furnishings from the Palais Matteï, Italy [?], a still life of fruit, and a drawing of an elephant. -- Portfolio Croquis divers, comprises both record and design drawings - ranging from sketches to renderings - of varied subject matter. The record drawings include a rendering of the Hôtel de ville, Brussels, and line drawings of a baldachin and an urban square. The design drawings for buildings and interiors in Classical, Gothic and Exotic Revival styles are probably by Hubert Rohault de Fleury and include: line and finished drawings for a dairy after Jean François Joseph LeCointre; an imaginary church, perhaps inspired by Pugin; and a hôtel on rue de Varennes, Paris. Several drawings and prints depict military subject matter: fortifications after Louis de Cormontaigne, a battery, a cannon, and revolutionary battle scenes, some in Paris. Also included are several drawings of non-architectural subject matter - a coat of arms, perhaps of the Bougainville family, cossack soldiers, a boar hunt, a rock formation and lithographic maps of Istria and Rhodes. -- Portfolio Vues d'Italie, consists of mostly freehand drawings of Italian views and buildings in Paestum, Arezzo, Naples, Rome, Caprarola, Florence, Fidenza, Genoa, and Tivoli. The buildings and urban spaces include: Villa Belvedere, Naples; the Cathedral of Borgo S. Donino; the Temple of Vesta, Tivoli; the Campidoglio, Piazza del Popolo, Palais Maccarani, Arc de Septimus Severus, Ste. Pudenziana, and Baslica of Constantine, all in Rome. The presence of preparatory drawings for some of these views suggests they were intended to be published, either as individual prints or in a book. -- Portfolio Croquis arrangement de boutiques, de meuble et de decorations, comprises mostly finished watercolour drawings for Empire style interiors and furniture, probably designed by Hubert Rohault de Fleury. Also included are an elevation for a storefront for Batton Magasin de Fleurs Fines, drawings for two garden structures, and elevations for classical interiors and mouldings.

Form:
drawings
works of art
Quantity / Object type:
4 portfolio(s)
Stage and Purpose:
  • design drawings
  • design development drawings
  • preliminary drawings
  • presentation drawings (proposals)
  • record drawings
  • preparatory drawings
  • topographical views
  • travel sketches
  • book illustrations
Technique and media:

Manuscript in graphite on laid paper

Dimensions:

case: 52,8 x 35,3 x 3,4 cm portfolio (smallest): 33,3 x 25,4 cm portfolio (largest): 51 x 34 cm sheet (smallest): 9 x 7,1 cm sheet (largest): 52,6 x 34 cm secondary support (smallest): 50 x 33,5 cm secondary support (largest): 51 x 34,9 cm

Reference number:

DR1974:0002:030:001-065

Drawing Type:
  • line drawings
  • finished drawings
  • freehand drawings
  • renderings
  • sketches
  • travel sketches
  • views
Method of Projection:
  • perspective drawings
  • pictorial drawings
  • scale drawings
  • plans (drawings)
  • sections (orthographic drawings)
  • elevations (drawings)
  • sectional elevation
Point of View:
  • general views
  • partial views
  • distant views
  • exterior views
  • interior views
Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- These four portfolios consist of brown paper folders which are housed in a case covered with green and blue wove paper. The lid is hinged with cloth and the spine is stamped with "CROQUIS E" in gold. Portfolio "Croquis a Placer en Papier" (DR1974:0002:030:001 - DR1974:0002:030:008) consists of 6 drawings in a wove paper folder, 6 blank sheets and 2 sheets of used paper, probably mounts for drawings (DR1974:0002:030:007 R/V and DR1974:0002:030:008). Portfolios "Croquis divers (DR1974:0002:030:009 - DR1974:0002:030:030), "Vues d'Italie" (DR1974:0002:030:031 - DR1974:0002:050), "Croquis arrangement de Boutiques de meubles en de Decorations" (DR1974:0002:030:051 - DR1974:0002:030:065) consist of 22, 20, and 15 sheets respectively, with between 1 to 5 drawings locally mounted on each sheet.

Inscription:

dated and inscribed - on DR1974:0002:030:020, by the draughtsman, in graphite, l.l.; "R Voizel Le 29 octobre 1830" inscribed - on some of the drawings and prints, by the draughtsman, in graphite or pen and ink, in various locations: with titles inscribed - on some of the drawings in the fourth portfolio, by the draughtsman, in graphite or pen and ink, throughout: with dimensions inscribed - on the paper folder of the first portfolio, by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.c.: "St. Janvier à Naples par Mr. Provost" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:030:003, by the draughtsman, in graphite, l.r.: "Mr. Bonta arche." inscribed - on DR1974:0002:030:010:002 and DR1974:0002:030:010:003, by an unknown hand, l.r. or b.: with titles inscribed - on DR1974:0002:030:012:001, by the draughtsman, in graphite, r.: with notes concerning the colours and ornamentation inscribed - on DR1974:0002:030:017:004, by the draughtsman, in graphite, l.r.: "armand" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:030:025:002, by the draughtsman, in pen and brown ink, b.: "Bougainville / 1766, 67, 68 / Bougainville / 1824, 25, 26/ PUPPIBUS ET LAETINAUTAE POSUERE CORONAS" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:030:028:001, by the draughtsman, in graphite, l.r.: "Mr Trobriaut" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:030:037:001-002 and DR1974:0002:040:001-002, by an unknown hand, in graphite, b.: "Mr Provost" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:030:054, by the draughtsman, in watercolour and pen and black ink, t.: "BATTON / MAGASIN DE FLEURS FINES"

Location:

Arezzo; Italy;

Subject:
  • architecture
  • interior design
  • engineering
  • military
  • sculpture
  • topographic
  • urban planning
Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal
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