People:

Hubert Rohault de Fleury (student)
Hubert Rohault de Fleury (draughtsman)
École spéciale de peinture, sculpture et architecture (France) (educational institution)
Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux (dedicatee)
David Le Roy (teacher)

Title:

Album of student drawings for architectural competitions held at the École spéciale de peinture, sculpture et architecture, Paris

Date:

1800-1802

Description:

- This album contains large rendered drawings executed by Hubert Rohault de Fleury between 1800 and 1802 for architectural competitions held at the École Spéciale de Peinture, Sculpture et Architecture. These include renderings submitted by him for the 1800 Grand Prix programme for an "École Nationale des Beaux-Arts" (DR1974:0002:013:002 and DR1974:0002:013:008), for which he won a "deuxième Grand Prix", and for the 1801 Grand Prix Programme for "Un forum ou place public dédié à la Paix" (DR1974:0002:013:001 and DR1974:0002:013:007). David Le Roy, professor of architectural theory at the École, has signed and dated all four drawings on the verso, which indicates that the sheets were blank before being completed "en loge" (Levine, 99 and Perouse de Montclos, 11). Drawings DR1974:0002:013:004, DR1974:0002:013:005 (front and rear elevations for the same building), and DR1974:0002:013:006 are probably renderings for either a Grand Prix competition or a "projet rendu". The subject matter depicted in drawings DR1974:0002:013:004 - DR1974:0002:013:006 remains unclear. Bergdoll suggests that the drawings may be for Grand Prix programmes, including a "Ministère des Relations Extérieures" and a warehouse (Bergdoll, "HUBERT ... ", 1985), however, the former is depicted in DR1974:0002:013:007 and is therefore part of the larger 1801 Grand Prix programme for "Un forum ou place dédié à la Paix" (1801). A warehouse complex was never chosen as a Grand Prix programme during 1800-1802, Hubert's student years at the École (Macmillan). A recent Master's thesis suggests that Hubert Rohault de Fleury may have begun his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts in 1798 rather than 1800 (Amouroux, 3), in which case the unidentified drawings could be for the Grand Prix competitions held in 1798 and 1799 for a "Bourse pour une ville maritime" and an "Élysée ou cimetière public". The drawing for a fountain in honour of General Desaix, place Thionville (DR1974:0002:013:003) is possibly an entry for a "Prix d'émulation", in which monuments were a favorite category (Jacques, 61).

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)

Stage and Purpose:

competition drawings
presentation drawings (proposals)
student drawings

Technique and media:

Mostly wash over graphite with pen and black ink on laid paper, with one folio laid down on wove paper

Dimensions:

album (at binding): 68,1 x 52,6 x 24 cm sheet (smallest [unfolded, approx.]): 64 x 47,4 cm sheet (largest [unfolded, approx.]): 43,7 x 209 cm

Reference number:

DR1974:0002:013:001-008

Drawing Type:

finished drawings
renderings

Method of Projection:

plans (drawings)
site plan
longitudinal section
elevations (drawings)
sectional elevation

Point of View:

exterior views
interior views

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The album is bound with blue paper over cardboard and faced with marbled paper. Most of the folios are extremely large, each consisting of three or four sheets of laid paper folded to fit inside the album. Drawing DR1874:0002:013:002 has a blue wove paper border laid down on the support, and remnants of a similar border are evident on DR1974:0002:013:004, DR1974:0002:013:005 and DR1974:0002:013:008. Drawing DR1974:0002:013:007 was removed from the album for 'Architecture & Its Image' and remains unbound.

Inscription:

signed, inscribed and dated - on DR1974:0002:013:001, in pen and black ink, verso, c.l. and c.r.: "David Le Roy."; and "arc de Triomphe / papier vu le 5 Thermidor an IX / David Le Roy" signed, inscribed and dated - on DR1974:0002:013:002, in pen and black ink, verso, c.l. and c.r.: "David Le Roy"; and "coup general / papier vu le 19 Thermidor / David Le Roy" signed, inscribed and dated - on DR1974:0002:013:007, in pen and black ink, verso, c.r. and c.l.: "David Le Roy"; and "elevation / papier vu le 14 Messidor an IX / David Le Roy" signed, inscribed and dated - on DR1974:0002:013:008, in pen and black ink, verso, c.r. and c.l.: "David Le Roy"; and "Plan general / papier vu le 12 Messidor / David Le Roy" imprinted - on the spine, by an unknown hand, in gold, u.c.: "PROJECTS / ACADÉMIQ" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:013:007, by a contemporary hand ? in pen and brown ink, verso, t.: "Ecole des arts." numbered - on DR1974:0002:013:004 and DR1974:0002:013:005, by an unknown hand, in charcoal, l.l.: DR1974:0002:013:004, the letter "s" has been crossed out and replaced with a "5"; and DR1974:0002:013:005, with illeg. number or letter imprinted - on DR1974:0002:013:001, by an unknown hand, laid down on verso, l.l.: with an advertisement for an all-purpose varnish inscribed, imprinted and numbered - on a loose bill between DR1974:0002:013:002 and DR1974:0002:013:003, by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink and pen and brown ink: with part of a bill sent to Hubert Rohault de Fleury for work done on a cesspool inscribed - on DR1974:0002:013:008, by a contemporary hand ? in graphite, verso, b.: "2 grand prix" [or prise ?]

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

triumphal arch
warehouse
Beaux-Arts
Diocletian windows
historic monument
national monument
soldier's monument

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal