Perspective showing the interior decoration for a salon of the hôtel of the Duchesse de Mazarin, quai Malaquais, Paris

People:

Jean Démosthène Dugourc (draughtsman)
François-Joseph Bélanger (architect)

Title:

Perspective showing the interior decoration for a salon of the hôtel of the Duchesse de Mazarin, quai Malaquais, Paris

Date:

ca. 1780

Form:
drawings

Quantity / Object type:
1 drawing(s)

Stage and Purpose:

presentation drawing (proposal)
composition drawing

Technique and media:

Pen and india ink and watercolour

Dimensions:

comp.: 28.2 x 33.3 cm secondary support: 34.7 x 40.4 cm sheet: 34.7 x 40.4 cm

Reference number:

DR1992:0015

Drawing Type:

finished drawing
rendering

Method of Projection:

interior perspective

Point of View:

interior view

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- The drawing is framed with a thin India ink border and a wider brown ink border. Narrow strips of paper with gold leaf were glued over the sheet next to the brown ink border as a camouflage to brown ink bleeds. Strips of green paper, partially pulled off, were glued next to the gold border up to the edges of the sheet. A double brown ink border frames the green strips of paper. Traces of glue and traces of pulled off beige and brown papers are visible on green paper strips. Marks in blue coloured pencil are visible on the outer edge of green paper strips, u.c., c.l. and c.r.

Inscription:

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on green paper stripes, b.c.: [illeg.]; and c.l.: [illeg.] inscribed - by the draughtsman, within the composition (on the wall below the vaulted ceiling), the monogram "MA" referring to Louise-Jeanne de Durfort, duchesse de Mazarin

Location:

Paris; France;

Subject:

architecture
interior design

Subject Descriptive Terms:

figures (representations)
quay
cabinet of curiosity
duchess
hôtel (town house)
interior decoration
music room
salon
vaulted ceiling
genre

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal;
Fonds spécial Bronfman/de Gunzburg/Seagram pour les acquisitions/
Bronfman/de Gunzburg/Seagram Special Fund for Acquisitions

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