• Louis-Pierre Baltard (architect)
• Louis-Pierre Baltard (draughtsman)
• Jean Baptiste Rondelet (architect)

Projet de monument sur l'emplacement de l'église de la Madeleine: Plan, observations, et projet alternatif

after 20 December 1806

- The large plan taking up most of the sheet seems to be for the same project as the other drawings in the album, while the four small drawings - plan, elevations, and cross section - are an alternate proposal. According to the inscription, yellow wash on the main plan signifies those elements of the existing structure which were to be demolished, black indicates the parts of the earlier structure which would be reused, while pink indicates proposed construction.

• competition drawing

Plume et encre noire avec aquarelle sur crayon graphite pen and black ink with watercolour, over graphite

sheet: 123.9 x 75.7 cm

DR1988:0270:005

• line drawings

• plan (drawing)
• section
• elevations (drawings)

- Old folds run horizontally and vertically where the sheet was folded to fit the album. It was probably attached to guard M. The sheet was constructed of two separate pieces of paper. It is irregular in shape with a small rectangular extension at the t..

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, c.l.: "PLAN / avec addition -." inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, l.l.: with letters keyed to a legend inscribed - by Rondelet ? in pen and brown ink, c.r. to l.r.: "observation..." followed by a paragraph introducing the project and explaining the colour coding, by a legend listing the parts of the small plan, by the "Resumé Général du Devis", and by the signatures of Rondelet and Baltard.

• architecture