• Louis Marie Henri Sortais (draughtsman)
• Ecole des beaux-arts (France) (educational institution)
• Louis Marie Henri Sortais (architect)
• Honoré Daumet (teacher)
• Charles-Louis Girault (teacher)

Student project for an exhibition greenhouse

1887

- A student project for a glass exhibition building entitled "Exp[osition] d'Horticulture" and described in elevation, plan, and section. The plan shows a square structure with circular pavilions in the corners and entrances in the middle of each side. The elevation (showing the principal façade) indicates that the main hall is a tripartite structure with a tall, barrel-vaulted mid-section flanked by two lower, semi-barrel-vaulted sections. This main hall is encased by a one-storey gallery connecting the four pavilions in the corners.

• student drawing

Graphite and various watercolours

sheet: 47.8 x 63.9 cm

DR1978:0014:010

• rendering
• esquisse

• orthographic drawing (object)
• plan (drawing)
• section
• elevation (drawing)

inscribed - by a contemporary hand, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "no.52 / Barbier [signature]"; by a contemporary hand, in blue pencil, t.: "1r mention"; by a contemporary hand, in red pencil, t.: "27"; by the draughtsman, in graphite, verso, u.l.: "Louis Sortais / at[elier]. Daumet-Girault" stamped - circular relief stamp, in blue ink, u.l.: "Ecole des Beaux-Arts"

• architecture

• greenhouse
• exhibition building