People:

Charles Rohault de Fleury (architect)
Le Blanc (engraver (printmaker))
Charles Rohault de Fleury (draughtsman)
Alphonse Giraud (engraver (printmaker))
Hubert Rohault de Fleury (architect)
Hubert Rohault de Fleury (draughtsman)
Nouveau Quartier Poissonnière (Society) (client)

Title:

Album of drawings for six projects related to horses: a stud-farm, an auction house and infirmary, and slaughterhouses, France

Date:

1835-1836, printed 1819-1827 ?

Description:

- This album contains drawings by Hubert and Charles Rohault de Fleury for six projects related to horses, with some pertaining to larger issues of urban development. The drawings range from design development drawings to highly finished renderings - mostly plans, elevations and sections. The proposed projects are in a pared-down classical style typical of the Rohault de Fleury's utilitarian structures. The projects include a stud-farm, Haras de Madrid, Bois de Boulogne (1819); a horse auction house (bazaar) and infirmary, Clos St. Charles, nouveau quartier Poissonnière, including studies for the development of the quartier (1823-1825); Clos d'équarrissage, fôret de Bondy (probably 1825-1827); and three projects for horse slaughterhouses: Plaine de Grenelle (1824), an unnamed project (probably between 1825 and 1827), and La Villette (1835-1836). Hubert's project for a stud-farm on the site of the old Château de Madrid consists mostly of highly finished plans, elevations, and sections for the stables (DR1974:0002:014:001 - DR1974:0002:014:013). Hubert's project for a horse auction house (bazaar) and infirmary for the Clos St. Charles area is apparently part of a larger project to develop the nouveau quartier Poissonnière (DR1974:0002:014:014 - DR1974:0002:014:029). The numerous site plans show the horse auction house (bazaar) and infirmary, proposed roads, and properties to be purchased and sold. Included is a property lots plan for the quartier (DR1974:0002:014:014). Hubert's Clos d'équarrissage is the most extensive project in the album. Forty-three finished drawings - including construction drawings and plans showing variant configurations for the disposition of buildings - depict a slaughterhouse, a factory for the preservation of muscles, buildings for the preservation and processing of offal, and workers' housing (DR1974:0002:014:051 - DR1974:0002:014:088, DR1974:0002:014:091 - DR1974:0002:014:093, DR1974:0002:014:095 and DR1974:002:014:096). Hubert's drawings for a horse slaughterhouse, Plaine de Grenelle, range from detailed design development drawings to highly finished site plans (DR1974:0002:014:030 - DR1974:0002:014:048) and a bird's-eye view of the slaughterhouse (DR1974:0002:014:033). The drawings for an unidentified slaughterhouse are possibly for this project (DR1974:0002:014:049 - DR1974:0002:014:051). Charles's project for a slaughterhouse at La Villette consists of variant site plans (DR1974:0002:014:089 - DR1974:00002:014:090, DR1974:0002:014:095, DR1974:0002:014:104).

Form:
drawings
works of art

Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design drawings
design development drawings
preliminary drawings
presentation drawings (proposals)
working drawings
preparatory drawings
detail drawings
structural drawings

Technique and media:

Prints include engravings, all with watercolour and most with traces of graphite on wove paper

Dimensions:

album: 66 x 51 x 4 cm sheet (smallest): 11,5 x 7,3 cm sheet (largest): 61,5 x 168,2 cm secondary support (smallest): 48,8 x 40,8 cm secondary support (largest): 60,5 x 44,7 cm

Reference number:

DR1974:0002:014:001-104

Drawing Type:

line drawings
mechanical drawings (tool-aided drawings)
finished drawings
freehand drawings
renderings
sketches
preliminary sketches
tracings

Method of Projection:

perspective drawings
axonometric drawings
scale drawings
plans (drawings)
framing plans
foundation plans
site plans
block plans
sections (orthographic drawings)
elevations (drawings)

Point of View:

bird's-eye view
exterior view
interior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- This album is bound between album boards faced with green marbled paper. The drawings and prints are attached to the binding with guards. One sheet fragment and one imprinted sheet of paper are inserted into the album.

Inscription:

signed, dated and inscribed - on some of the drawings, by the architect, in pen and ink and/or graphite, in various locations: with signature and date; on many of the drawings: with titles, dimensions and notations on the layout of the building; on most of the drawings: with numbers corresponding to the table of contents inscribed and dated - on DR1974:0002:014:012, by the architect, in graphite, t.: "[illeg. word] une esquisse au crayon / a m [illeg. letter] Normand le / 26 Mai 1820" inscribed and dated - on DR1974:0002:014:030 and DR1974:0002:014:032, by the architect, in pen and black ink, l.l. and l.r.: "adopté par la commission chargés du rapport sur l'équarrisage des chevaux / [illegible line of words] / Paris 24 7bre 1824" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:014:078 - DR1974:0002:014:080, by the architect, in pen and black ink, various locations: "Ville de Paris / Service Central d'Assainissement / Projet d'équarrisage" inscribed and dated - on the table of contents (Tables des planches), by a later hand, in graphite, l.r.: "vu le [sic] avril 1862" imprinted - on DR1974:0002:014:018 - DR1974:0002:014:023, by a contemporary hand, b.: "S'adresser pour traiter à Mrs / Achille Leclere, Rue Hauteville No 2 / Moisson Devaux, Rue du Faubourg Poissonière, No 5 / Boileau, Rue Traversière Richelieu, No 40 / Fevrier, Rue du Bac, No 30"

Subject:

architecture
urban planning

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