Student project for a lakeside pavilion

People:

Ecole des beaux-arts (France) (educational institution)
Louis Marie Henri Sortais (architect)
Louis Marie Henri Sortais (draughtsman)
Honoré Daumet (teacher)

Title:

Student project for a lakeside pavilion

Date:

1884

Description:

- A student project for an ornate lakeside pavilion described in elevation, plan, and section. The pavilion, a richly decorated aedicular structure surmounted by a tall, mansard cupola, stands on a rusticated stone terrace connected to the shore by a double flight of stairs. Docking facilities for pleasure craft are housed within the terrace and are connected with the pavilion above by curved internal stairs. At the corners on one side of the terrace are two jets of water rising to the height of the pavilion's pediments.

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

student drawing

Technique and media:

Graphite and various watercolours

Dimensions:

sheet: 61.9 x 48.3 cm

Reference number:

DR1978:0014:005

Drawing Type:

rendering
esquisse

Method of Projection:

orthographic drawing (object)
plan (drawing)
section
elevation (drawing)

Inscription:

inscribed - by a contemporary hand, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "no.112 / 8 janvier 1884 / Barbier [signature]"; by a contemporary hand, in blue pencil, u.l.: "1ere mention"; by a contemporary hand, in red pencil, t.: "31"; by the draughtsman, in graphite, verso, u.l.: "Louis Sortais / at[elier] Daumet" stamped - circular relief stamp, in blue-green ink, u.l.: "Ecole des Beaux-Arts"

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

boathouse
pavilion

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

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