Album of mostly student drawings of the Orders
drawings executed between 1818-1832, prints executed 1776 ?-1832
- This album contains studies by Charles Rohault de Fleury of the five classical orders. The majority of the drawings are from his student years at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1822-1825). Others are from his student years at the Ecole Polytechnique (1820-1822), or drawings executed while he was a practicing architect (after 1825). Although the drawings are not physically organized into categories within the album, they can be divided into three groups according to their architectural sources: paradigmatic examples taken from named monuments of Greek and Roman architecture, examples taken from unnamed architectural monuments or treatises, and examples after 16th century Italian and French interpretors of the classical tradition, such as Palladio, Serlio, Vignola and Delorme. The only exception to these categories is the drawing of the "soubassement" for the pavilions of the Louvre (DR1974:0002:021:032 R/V). Most of the drawings focus on the proportions of the orders, their disposition within the portico in terms of intercolumnar spacing and number of columns, and the proper moulding and ornamentation particular to each order. This album also contains four etchings of similar subject matter by Gaitte, Stévigny, Piranesi, and an unknown early 19th century etcher.
Prints include two etchings on wove paper and two etchings on laid paper, one of which is laid down on laid paper
album (at binding): 66,6 x 52,6 x 3 cm sheet (smallest [approx. and irreg.]): 34 x 27 cm sheet (largest [approx. and irreg.]): 63,4 x 102,2 cm
DR1974:0002:021:001-033
- The album is bound with green parchment over cardboard, and faced with marbled paper. Many of the thirty-three folios have become detached from the guards. Eight guards remain unused. Some of the larger sheets have been folded to fit inside the album.
labelled - on the back pastedown and on the back album board, on white paper labels, by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, u.r.: "DE LA BIBLIOTHÈQUE / DE / ROHAULT DE FLEURY / MANUSCRITS" stamped - on the spine, on a red leather label, in gold, u.c.: "ARCHITECTURE / ORDRES" dated - on DR1974:0002:021:016, by the draughtsman ? in pen and black ink, l.l.: "Mars 1823" dated - on DR1974:0002:021:018 R, by the draughtsman ? in pen and black ink, u.l.: "1818-1819" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:021:005, DR1974:0002:021:007, DR1974:0002:021:011 - DR1974:0002:021:015 and DR1974:0002:021:019 - DR1974:0002:021:021, by the draughtsman, in graphite, l.r. or l.c., the following on DR1974:0002:021:015 being typical: "Dorique de Vignole / hauteur de la colonne 16 mod. compris la base / Entrecolonnement Simple d'axe en axe 7m 1/2 / id. d'arcades entre des colonnes 10m / id. d'arcades entre des colonnes sur des piedestaux 13m" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:021:027, by the draughtsman, in graphite, b.: "chapiteau trouve à Meudon par M. Durand" inscribed - on most of the drawings, by the draughtsman, in graphite and/or pen and ink, in various locations: with titles inscribed - on most of the drawings, by the draughtsman, in graphite and/or pen and ink, throughout: with dimensions and proportions indicated in modules, parties and pieds
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