Personnes et institutions:

Hubert Rohault de Fleury (architect)
Hubert Rohault de Fleury (draughtsman)

Titre:

Album of drawings for three gendarmerie barracks: rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin, rue des Minimes, and rue Mouffetard, Paris

Date:

drawings executed 1817-1830, manuscript written 1817-1821

Description:

- This album contains mostly highly finished drawings - plans, elevations, and sections - for three gendarmerie barracks in Paris by Hubert Rohault de Fleury: rue du Faubourg-Saint-Martin (1829-1830 ?), rue des Minimes (1823-1825 ?), and rue Mouffetard (1821-1824). Rohault de Fleury's alterations to the Faubourg-Saint-Martin barracks were probably limited to the "2e" and "3e étages" and the sewer system (DR1974:0002:016:001 - DR1974:0002:016:006). It has not been determined whether these alterations were for the initial conversion of the Hôtel des arts into barracks, or for subsequent alterations to the barracks. The drawings for the Minimes barracks are more comprehensive and relate to work on the disposition of the interiors, the enclosing wall, and the entrance gateway (DR1974:0002:016:007 - DR1974:0002:016:022 and DR1974:0002:016:024 - DR1974:0002:016:027). The Mouffetard barracks is the largest and best known of the projects in the album (DR1974:0002:016:023, DR1974:0002:016:028 - DR1974:0002:016:070). It is comprehensively documented and includes: a bidding document for the barracks, plans of the existing Couvent des Augustines de Notre-Dame-de-la-Miséricorde situated on the site, early projects for the barracks of 1821, and the 1824 project which apparently conforms to the barracks as executed. The façades of the Caserne de la Gendarmerie royale, rue Mouffetard, are in the pared-down classical style typical of Hubert's utilitarian structures.

Classification:
dessins

Quantité / Type d’objet:
1 album(s)

Étape et objectif:

design development drawings
record drawings
dessin d'exécution
dessins de structure
finished drawings

Technique et médium:

Drawings include mostly pen and black ink, wash and/or graphite on laid, or oiled laid paper, locally mounted or laid down on wove paper, and one pen and black ink on tracing paper, locally mounted on wove paper

Dimensions:

album: 66,1 x 51,6 x 4 cm sheet (smallest): 19,5 x 30,8 cm sheet (largest): 64 x 94 cm secondary support (smallest): 36,5 x 24 cm secondary support (largest): 60,2 x 45,5 cm

Numéro de référence:

DR1974:0002:016:001-070

Type de dessins:

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

Type de document:

bidding document

Méthode de projection:

scale drawings
detail drawing
floor plans
foundation plans
site plans
block plans
cross sections
longitudinal sections
elevations (drawings)
sectional elevation

Point de vue:

exterior view

Caractéristiques matérielles et contraintes techniques:

- This album is bound between album boards covered with marbled paper and a cloth spine stamped in gold with bands and the title. Most of the sheets are on guards or bound directly into the album. Some of the sheets, mostly tracing or oiled laid paper, are locally mounted or laid down on the album pages. Drawings DR1974:0002:016:014 - DR1974:0002:016:015, and DR1974:0002:016:022 - DR1974:0002:016:025, are unbound.

Inscriptions:

inscribed, dated and signed - on DR1974:0002:016:043 - DR1974:0002:016:063, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, in various locations, the following on DR1974:0002:016:047 being typical: "conforme au plan remise à la direction / en [Juin] 1824 R" inscribed and dated - on DR1974:0002:016:029, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "plan de la Maison des Hospitaliers / Rue Mouffetard le dix huit et / mil huit [...]" dated and signed - on DR1974:0002:016:033, DR1974:0002:016:034, and DR1974:0002:016:038, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, in various locations: "Paris 24 9bre 1821 Rohault" inscribed and dated - on the title page, by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.r.: "1829 / ... [illeg.]" inscribed - on many of the drawings, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink and/or graphite, in various locations: with titles, titles indicating the layout of the rooms, dimensions, and notations

Sujet:

architecture

Mention de crédit:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal