Student project for a park fountain dedicated to the arts

People:

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

Title:

Student project for a park fountain dedicated to the arts

Date:

1886

Description:

- A student project for a park fountain dedicated to the fine arts and described in elevation, plan, and profile. Rising from a series of circular basins, the central monument -- a four-sided aedicula capped by a curved pavilion roof -- houses four allegorical figures, one on each side and set in a niche. In the entablature above the figure shown in the elevation appears the inscription "Peinture".

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

student drawing

Technique and media:

Graphite and various watercolours

Dimensions:

sheet: 62.8 x 48.0 cm

Reference number:

DR1978:0014:009

Drawing Type:

rendering
esquisse

Method of Projection:

orthographic drawing (object)
profile (orthographic drawing)
plan (drawing)
elevation (drawing)

Inscription:

inscribed - by a contemporary hand, in pen and black ink, u.l.: "no.4 / Barbier [signature]"; by a contemporary hand, in red pencil, t.: "1"; by the draughtsman, in graphite, verso, u.l.: "Louis Sortais / at[elier] Daumet-Girault" stamped - circular relief stamp, in blue ink, u.l.: "Ecole des Beaux-Arts"

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

fountain
allegorical sculpture

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

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