• Charles Thomine (draughtsman)
• Charles Thomine (architect)

Elevations and plans for a chalet-style restuarant, Le Vésinet

3 February 1859

- These elevations and plans show a chalet-style restaurant with a deep veranda. Chalet-style design motifs include the carved woodwork of the eaves, balustrades, and second-story walls. The rendering shows the restaurant set in a country landscape.

• dessin de présentation

Pen and black and red ink, some over graphite, with watercolour

secondary support: 60.5 x 77.5 cm sheet: 42.8 x 59.2 cm

DR1987:0309

• line drawings
• finished drawing

• pictorial drawing
• plans (drawings)
• elevation (drawing)

- The c. of the secondary support has been cut out so that both sides of the sheet are visible; however, the verso of the sheet is backed with thin paper so that the sheet is no longer translucent.

inscribed, signed, and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, t.: with title; l.r.: "Dressé par l'architecte Soussigné / Paris le 3 Février 1859. / C. Thomine"; u.l.: "Façade Suivant AB"; u.r.: "No. 16. / Façade-laterale-Suivant-CD."; c.l.: "Rez-de-Chaussée"; c.r.: "Plan-du-1er. Etage"; and throughout the b. half of the sheet: with measurements, names of rooms, and letters identifying elevations

• architecture

• restaurant
• chalet