• Hubert Rohault de Fleury (architect)
• Hubert Rohault de Fleury (draughtsman)
• M. Rargot (client)

Album of drawings for proposed renovations to the house and outbuildings, Domaine de La Vallée, Loir-et-Cher, France

ca. 1815

- This album contains drawings of the Domaine de La Vallée and for extensive renovations proposed by Hubert Rohault de Fleury to the house and its outbuildings, including the demolition of some portions the existing structures. The drawings vary from rough sketches to line drawings, some coloured with wash. Nine site plans for the estate depict the proposed placement of buildings, the layout of roads, and the landscaping. The original house and outbuildings are documented in five rough sketches with dimensioning, possibly measured drawings executed on site, (DR1974:0002:025:039 - DR1974:0002:025:043) and several more finished plans and elevations (DR1974:0002:025:021 R/V, DR1974:0002:025:025, and DR1974:0002:025:031). These five rough sketches include a number of thumbnail sketches, possibly preliminary ideas for the renovation. The renovation proposals for the house and outbuildings include plans, exterior and interior elevations, an axonometric sketch as well as more complete designs for a portico and a porch. Also included are Rohault de Fleury's designs for new outbuildings and other structures: a bridge, possibly with several alternate designs, a levee planted with trees, a granary, a stable, a combined stable and cowshed, a sheepfold, two schemes for a garden temple and two gates. Many of the inscriptions and written documents are illegible, but they apparently relate to construction methods, building materials, proposed alterations to existing structures, and cost calculations. There are several drawings for unidentified buildings in the album having no apparent link to the Domaine de La Vallée structures.

• design drawings
• conceptual drawings
• design development drawings
• measured drawings
• preliminary drawings
• presentation drawings (proposals)
• record drawings
• preparatory drawing
• detail drawings
• structural drawings

Manuscripts include pen and brown ink on laid paper

sheet (smallest): 20,3 x 16,4 cm sheet (largest): 96,3 x 60,3 cm folio (smallest): 21,4 x 34 cm folio (largest): 85,2 x 61,4 cm

DR1974:0002:025:001-059

• line drawings
• finished drawings
• freehand drawings
• doodles
• sketches
• preliminary sketches
• thumbnail sketches

• notes
• report
• specifications
• financial records

• axonometric drawings
• pictorial drawing
• scale drawings
• profiles (orthographic drawings)
• plans (drawings)
• floor plans
• framing plans
• site plans
• sections (orthographic drawings)
• elevations (drawings)

• general views
• partial views
• exterior views
• interior views

- This album is bound in album boards covered with blue marbled paper and a leather spine stamped in gold with decorative bands and the title. The endpapers are also marbled. The album contains 29 sheets on guards, 17 bound leaves and 14 loose sheets. Many of the drawings have rough sketches and doodles on their versos. Drawings DR1974:0002:025:026 and DR1974:0002:025:035 have been drawn on the versos of sheets with unrelated subject matter.

dated - on DR1974:0002:025:002, by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, u.l.: "9bre 1815" dated - on DR1974:0002:025:031, probably by the draughtsman, in pen and brown ink, l.l.: "28 7bre 1814" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:025:015, probably by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "DOMAINE DE LA VALLEE / Près de montoire / départment de loir et cher" inscribed - on many of the drawings, by the draughtsman, in pen and ink and/or graphite, throughout: with titles, dimensions, components and/or rooms and with notations concerning the construction, materials and cost calculations inscribed - on DR1974:0002:025:050 - DR1974:0002:025:051, by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, u.r.: "projet de bergerie abandonne [sic]"

• architecture
• landscape architecture
• interior design
• engineering

• gates
• outbuildings
• stable
• cow shed
• levee
• sheepfold

Contains:

• DR1974:0002:025:001 R/V, Elevation and plan for a bridge, Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Sketch plans, elevations and details for a bridge, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:003 R/V, Document, perhaps cost calculations, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:006 R/V, Plan and section for a levee, Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Detail for a levee, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:018 R/V, Partial site plan for Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Sketch plan, probably for the house, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:020 R/V, Partial site plan for Domaine de La Vallée showing the house and adjacent outbuildings; verso: Preliminary sketches, possibly for Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:021 R/V, Ground floor plan of the house and adjacent outbuildings, Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Preliminary sketches including a site plan, plans and elevations for the house and outbuildings, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:024 R/V, Plans for the house, probably for the first and second floors, Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Preliminary partial site plan, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:026 R/V, First floor plan of the west pavilion of the house, Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Axonometric drawing of a building stone, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:029 R/V, Side elevation for the house, Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Partial sketch site plan, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:032 R/V, Plan, probably for the entrance hall of the house, Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Sketch plan, possibly for the entrance hall of the house, Domaine de La Vallée and an elevation of an unidentified building, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:037 R/V, Elevation and plan, probably for an outbuilding, Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Plan for an unidentified building, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:038 R/V, Elevation, probably for an outbuilding, Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Sketch plan for an unidentified building, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:041 R/V, Sketch plan and dimensioning of the ground floor of the house, Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Sketch elevation, perhaps for the entrance stairs for the house, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:043 R/V, Sketch elevation, partial section and dimensioning of the house, and a partial sketch section and sketch elevation, probably for renovations, Domaine de la Vallée; verso: Sketches, including a partial site plan, Domaine de la Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:045 R/V, Elevation, site and floor plan for a garden temple, Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Partial elevation for the entabulature of a garden temple, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:056 R/V, Elevation and plan for the salon doorway for the house, Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Elevation for an unidentified building, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:057 R/V, Elevations and partial plans for the salon of the house, Domaine de La Vallée; verso: Plans and sections for entrance steps on a terrace, possibly for the house, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:002, Document concerning a bridge over a ravine, Domaine de La Vallée, 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:004, Document, perhaps cost calculations, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:005, Construction details for a bridge, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:007, Plan for a levee, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:008, Sketch plans and axonometric drawing, possibly for a levee wall or a bridge abutment, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:009, Plan, possibly for a ditch, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:010, Calculations with an elevation for piers with a spanning structure, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:011, Plan for a bridge, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:012, Interior wall elevation and profiles for the house, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:013, Plan and sketch elevation for an elm table, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:014, Partial site plan for Domaine de La Vallée, including a grange, a bridge and a stable, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:015, Site plan for Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:016, Site plan for Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:017, Site plan for Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:019, Site plan for Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:022, Plan, possibly for the ground floor for the house, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:023, First floor plan of the house, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:025, Elevation and plan, probably of the first floor of the house, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:027, Principal elevation for the house, Domaine de la Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:028, Sketch for the house, outbuildings and surrounding landscape, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:030, Plan, elevation and sections for the portico of the house, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:031, Elevation of the east pavilion of the house, Domaine de La Vallée, 1814
• DR1974:0002:025:033, Plan,section and elevations for a granary, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:034, Plan, section and elevations for a stable, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:035, Ground floor plan for a stable, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:036, Elevation and plan, probably for an outbuilding, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:039, Sketch elevations and dimensioning of the house, and preliminary sketches, probably for renovations, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:040, Sketch plan and dimensioning of the ground floor of the outbuildings, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:042, Sketch plan and dimensioning of the first floor of the house, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:044, Section and half elevation for roof framing and partial section for a floor, possibly for the house, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:046, Plan for the kitchen wing of the house, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:047, Section, plan and front elevation for a garden temple with a fountain, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:048, Elevation and plan for a gate, probably for Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:049, Plans and elevations, possibly for garden pavilions, probably for Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:050, Side elevation for a sheepfold, probably for Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:051, Front elevation and partial plan for a sheepfold, probably for Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:052, Elevations and plans, probably for a stable and cowshed for Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:053, Plan, section and elevations for a stable and cowshed, probably for Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:054, Principal elevation for the house, Domaine de la Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:055, Elevation, probably the terrace façade, with sections showing the roof trusses for the house, Domaine de la Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:058, Elevation for a wall and gate, probably for Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815
• DR1974:0002:025:059, Plan and sections for a bridge over a ravine, Domaine de La Vallée, ca. 1815