People:

Hubert Rohault de Fleury (draughtsman)
Hubert Rohault de Fleury (architect)
comte Achille-Libéral Treilhard (client)

Title:

Album of drawings and manuscripts, mostly for ten projects for country houses for comte Treilhard, France

Date:

1829-1840

Description:

- This album consists primarily of preliminary and design development drawings - mostly plans and elevations, as well as some sections and site plans - for ten projects for a country house for comte Treilhard, probably alternative proposals for the same site. Each project typically includes a sheet of notes and area calculations for the house, a principal elevation, and plans for each of the floors. In most cases the drawings for a project are grouped with the sheet of notes and calculations. The proposed location is not indicated, and it has not been determined if any of the projects in this album were constructed. All of the houses are classically-inspired, but vary widely in their size, form, and in the articulation and ornamentation of their façades. Two finished drawings - elevations coloured with wash - are included for project no. 7 (DR1974:0002:034:039 and DR1974:0002:034:040). Also included are a preliminary drawing for a building, possibly a house, on rue Saint-Honoré in Paris for comte Treilhard, and four drawings for a combination stable/granary, possibly for the same client.

Form:
drawings
textual records

Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)

Stage and Purpose:

design development drawings
preliminary drawings
presentation drawings (proposals)

Technique and media:

Manuscripts include mainly pen and brown ink, some with graphite, on laid or wove paper, and one graphite on wove paper

Dimensions:

album: 47 x 30,4 x 2,5 cm sheet (smallest): 16 x 13 cm sheet (largest): 50,8 x 40,3 cm folios (range): 16 to 38,2 x 29,9 to 44,3 cm

Reference number:

DR1974:0002:034:001-082

Drawing Type:

line drawings
mechanical drawings (tool-aided drawings)
finished drawings
freehand drawings
sketches

Document Type:

notes

Method of Projection:

scale drawings
plans (drawings)
site plans
sections (orthographic drawings)
elevations (drawings)

Point of View:

general views
partial views
exterior views

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- This album is bound with string and a sheet of roughly cut grey cardboard inscribed with the album title. Most of the drawings and all the manuscripts are bound directly into the album. Some drawings are locally mounted on album pages or the verso of other drawings. Some drawings are unbound. Many of the manuscripts are used as paper folders to group the bound and unbound drawings for a single project.

Inscription:

inscribed and dated - on the cover, by an unknown hand, in graphite, c.r.: "... [illeg.] le 33 mars 1863"; and in pen and brown ink, u.l. and u.c.: with the album title inscribed and dated - on DR1974:0002:034:048, by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.r.: "... [illeg.] le vendredi 27 7bre / 1829" inscribed - on many of the drawings, by the draughtsman, in graphite and/or pen and brown, red and/or black ink, throughout: with area calculations and dimensions and/or with titles indicating the functions of the rooms and buildings inscribed - on DR1974:0002:034:069, by the draughtsman, in graphite, throughout: with materials to be used inscribed - on DR1974:0002:034:078 - DR1974:0002:034:081, in pen and black ink and graphite: with titles inscribed - on DR1974:0002:034:082, by an unknown hand, in graphite, t.: "M Treilhard à Paris st [sic] honoré 364 / Projet ... [illeg.]

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

house
granary
stable

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