Personnes et institutions:

Charles Rohault de Fleury (draughtsman)
Charles Rohault de Fleury (architect)
Prince Alexei Soltykoff (client)

Titre:

Album of prints and drawings for Hôtel Soltykoff, rue Saint-Arnaud, Paris

Date:

1854-1858, printed 1854-1858

Description:

- This album consists primarily of design development drawings and the architect's copies of the working drawings for Hôtel Soltykoff. The hôtel consisted of a single rectangular pavilion with a central porte cochère and a rear courtyard with an outbuilding. The principal façade facing rue Saint-Arnaud (now rue Volney) and the interior were lavishly decorated. The structure of the hôtel consisted of load-bearing masonry combined with cast-iron columns, iron beams, and interior wood framing. The exterior was finished with cut stone. The album contains plans, elevations, details and sections, and full-scale drawings of the architectural elements, ornamentation, as well as joinery. Many of the drawings and transfer lithographs are inscribed with both the date of the drawing/original and the date of contract. Revisions, which are also often dated, have been made either directly on the drawing or on pieces of paper attached to the sheets. Inscriptions indicate that in some cases these revisions were added after the construction of the building. Also included are preliminary drawings (DR1974:0002:003:028 R/V), and detailed interior views, some of which are partially coloured with watercolour (DR1974:0002:003:049, DR1974:0002:003:069, DR1974:0002:003:078). The drawings and transfer lithographs have been grouped, possibly by the compiler of the album, according to the part of the building represented, and by the type of construction: stonework, woodwork, framework, and ironwork. Unbound material inserted into the album includes four large unbound full-scale preliminary sketches for architectural ornament, possibly for Hôtel Soltykoff (DR1974:0002:003:061 - DR1974:0002:003:064) and two drawings for a terrace and staircase, apparently not for Hôtel Soltykoff (DR1974:0002:003:003 and DR1974:0002:003:042).

Classification:
dessins
oeuvres d'art

Quantité / Type d’objet:
1 album(s)

Étape et objectif:

as-built drawings
dessins conceptuels
design development drawings
dessins préliminaires
dessin d'exécution
technical drawings
plumbing drawings
dessins de détail
dessins de structure

Technique et médium:

Prints include several transfer lithographs with pen and black, brown, blue or red ink, graphite, chalk and wash on wove paper and one transfer lithograph with watercolour, pen and brown ink and graphite on wove paper, most of which are laid down on wove paper manuscript in pen and black ink on laid paper

Dimensions:

album: 49 x 35,5 x 7,4 cm sheets (range): 10,1 to 137 x 5,8 to 140,3 cm secondary support (range): 18,4 to 137 x 24 to 140,3 cm

Numéro de référence:

DR1974:0002:003:001-105

Type de dessins:

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

Méthode de projection:

dessins axonométriques
scale drawings
dessins grandeur nature
profiles (orthographic drawings)
plans (drawings)
sections (orthographic drawings)
elevations (drawings)
composite drawings

Point de vue:

general views
partial views
interior views
plan views

Caractéristiques matérielles et contraintes techniques:

- This album is bound in album boards covered with brown marbled paper and a red leather spine stamped with decorative bands, title and date in gold. The endpapers are of marbled paper with bookplates on the front flyleaf and back pastedown. Most of the sheets, which are inserted into the album guards and span the full width of the open album, consist of tracing or thin wove paper laid down on wove paper of an equal size. This album also includes many oversized sheets with multiple folds. Eight sheets are not bound into the album. Many of the sheets have small pieces of tracing or wove paper with revisions attached to them.

Inscriptions:

inscribed and dated - on many of the drawings, probably by the draughtsman, in pen and ink and/or graphite, in various locations, most frequently l.r., the following on DR1974:0002:003:006 being typical: "Remis a l'Entrepreneur le 14 Juillet 1854 / Dressé par l'architecte soussigné / Paris ce 12 Juillet 1854"; and DR1974:0002:003:047: "Remis a l'Entrepreneur Charpente / Le 8 Octobre 1854" inscribed and dated - on many of the originals, by the draughtsman, l.r., the following on DR1974:0002:003:091 being typical: "Dressé par l'Architecte souss. / Paris ce 1er Juin 1854 / [Remis a l'Entrepreneur le 25 June 1854]" [square brackets indicate text inserted in pen and ink on the reprographic copy] dated and inscribed - on many of the drawings and reprographic copies, by several unknown hands, in pen and ink, graphite, or chalk, in various locations: with the dates of the revisions labelled - on the front and back endpapers with bookplates, u.r. and l.r.: "DE LA BIBLIOTHEQUE / DE / ROHAULT DE FLEURY / MANUSCRITS" inscribed - on most of the drawings and reprographic copies, by the draughtsman, in pen and ink, graphite, and/or chalk, throughout: with titles, dimensions and notations pertaining to the construction of the building stamped - on DR1974:0002:003:080, DR1974:0002:003:090, DR1974:0002:003:091, DR1974:0002:003:100, DR1974:0002:003:0104, on the reprographic copies, in pen and black ink, l.r.: "CH. ROHAULT DE FLEURY / architecte / 12 rue d'Aguesseau" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:003:005, by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, verso, l.r.: "Notez-bien - Les corrections au crayon / vert ont été faites sur place après / l'exécution." inscribed - on 80 of the mounts, possibly by the compiler of the album, in pen and brown ink, verso, u.r.: with the drawing number, title and type of construction, "menuiserie" and "maçonnerie"

Sujet:

architecture

Termes descriptifs:

entablature
pediment
urn
panels (ornament areas)
cartouche

Mention de crédit:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal