Personnes et institutions:

Hubert Rohault de Fleury (draughtsman)
Unknown, France, early 19th century (engraver (printmaker))
Louis-Jean Allais (engraver (printmaker))
Hubert Rohault de Fleury (student)
École spéciale de peinture, sculpture et architecture (France) (educational institution)
Antoine Vaudoyer (engraver (printmaker))
Louis-Jean Allais (draughtsman)
Athanasius Détournelle (engraver (printmaker))
Antoine Vaudoyer (draughtsman)
Athanasius Détournelle (draughtsman)
Pierre Contant d'Ivry (architect)
Guillaume Martin Couture (architect)
David Le Roy (teacher)

Titre:

Album of student drawings for architectural competitions held at the École spéciale de peinture, sculpture et architecture and drawings for the conversion of the Église de la Madeleine into a Temple de la Gloire, Paris

Date:

drawings executed 1800-1807, manuscripts between 1800 and 1802, published 1806

Description:

- This album contains student drawings by Hubert Rohault de Fleury executed at the École spéciale de peinture, sculpture et architecture, Paris (1798-1802), including drawings for the Grand Prix Competitions of 1800, 1801 and 1802, the Concours d'essai, the Concours d'émulation of 1800 and 1801, and other undetermined competitions. The drawings illustrate all stages of the design and competition process, ranging from preliminary sketches and esquisses to finished renderings, but do not include the renderings submitted to the Grand Prix Competitions. Drawings for the conversion of the Église de la Madeleine into a Temple de la Gloire (ca. 1806-1807) include line and wash drawings. Hubert's 1800 Grand Prix entry for an École nationale des beaux-arts was awarded the "deuxième Grand Prix" and this album includes: the esquisse; a handwritten copy of the programme; 11 large-scale line drawings - sections, elevations, and details of the ornamentation (DR1974:0002:012:008 R; DR1974:0002:012:012 R; DR1974:0002:012:037, DR1974:0002:012:039, DR1974:0002:012:041 - DR1974:0002:012:049). Two other drawings depict an École des beaux-arts, but they do not conform to the esquisse of Hubert's 1800 Grand Prix entry (DR1974:0002:012:012 V and DR1974:0002:012:013). Hubert's 1801 Grand Prix entry for a forum or public square dedicated to peace, is represented by the esquisse and four elevations, one coloured with wash (DR1974:0002:012:009 R/V - DR1974:0002:012:011 R). Studies of triumphal arches, probably relate to this project (DR1974:0002:012:011 V). Hubert's winning 1802 Grand Prix entry for a public fair with a hall for the exhibition of products of industry located on the banks of a large river is represented by an elevation and sectional elevation for the esquisse; 3 prints; finished plans, one of which is possibly part of the esquisse; elevations; sectional elevations; and one section (DR1974:0002:012:001 R/V - DR1974:0002:012:006 R/V:001-004). Three drawings which are apparently for public fairs are perhaps studies for the 1802 Grand Prix Competition (DR1974:0002:012:007 R:001-003). Also included are Hubert's entries in the Concours d'essai for each of these Grand Prix Competitions. The presence of "devises" on several drawings indicates they are the submitted competition entries: a school or college for the Concours d'émulation of 25 June 1801, for which Rohault de Fleury won a medal, a temple, a lycée, an opera house, a public bath, a sepulchral chapel, and possibly an exchange. An uncharacteristic nocturnal elevation is possibly for a cenotaph dedicated to Isaac Newton (DR1974:0002:012:014). Rohault de Fleury's design for the conversion of the Église de la Madeleine is represented by two plans (one with an elevation) drawn on engraved plans of the Madeleine, three sketch plans, a section, an elevation of a capital and other ornamentation, and an engraved plan of the designs by Pierre Contant d'Ivry and Guillaume Martin Couture for the same project.

Classification:
dessins
documents textuels
oeuvres d'art

Quantité / Type d’objet:
1 album(s)

Étape et objectif:

competition drawings
design drawings
presentation drawings (proposals)
student drawings

Technique et médium:

Manuscripts include graphite and pen and black or brown ink on laid or wove paper, locally mounted on laid or wove paper prints include etchings/engravings and one engraving, all on laid paper locally mounted on laid paper

Dimensions:

album: 61,7 x 44,7 x 2,5 cm plate mark (smallest): 36,2 x 22,6 cm plate mark (largest): 28,1 x 40,6 cm sheet (smallest): 39,7 x 36,1 cm sheet (largest): 60,4 x 43,2 cm page (smallest): 14,3 x 7 cm page (largest): 89,5 x 60,2 cm

Numéro de référence:

DR1974:0002:012:001-049

Type de dessins:

line drawings
finished drawings
renderings
sketches
esquisses

Type de document:

notes
competition programme

Méthode de projection:

plans (drawings)
sections (orthographic drawings)
elevations (drawings)

Point de vue:

general views
partial views
exterior views

Caractéristiques matérielles et contraintes techniques:

- This album is bound between album boards covered with marbled paper and a cloth spine stamped in gold with the album title and several decorative bands. Most of the drawings and prints are locally mounted on either side of the album pages. Drawings DR1974:0002:012:037 - DR1974:0002:013:042 are inserted into the album on guards. Three drawings are bound directly into the album. Drawings DR1974:0002:012:009 R and DR1974:0002:012:035 were removed from the album for the exhibition 'Architecture & Its Image' and remain unbound.

Inscriptions:

signed and inscribed - on DR1974:0002:012:008 V, DR1974:0002:012:009 R, DR1974:0002:012:037, DR1974:0002:012:039, by the teacher, in pen and black or brown ink, in various locations on recto or verso: "David le Roy" or "Le Roy"; and on DR1974:0002:012:008 V only: with notes concerning the project inscribed, dated and signed - on DR1974:0002:012:046, by the teacher, in pen and brown ink, verso, l.r.: "coupe particulere / papier vu le 27 Termidor an 8 / David le Roy" inscribed and numbered - on a few of the drawings, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, in various locations: with keys to building components; and throughout: with letters or numbers inscribed and numbered - on DR1974:0002:012:021 R, by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, in various locations: with room functions inscribed - on DR1974:0002:012:001 R/V and DR1974:0002:012:002 R, by the engraver, in the plate above the image, t.: with titles inscribed - on DR1974:0002:012:001 R, by the engraver, in the plate below the image, b.: with the competition programme inscribed - on DR1974:0002:012:32 and DR1974:0002:012:33, by the engraver, in the plate to l. and r. of the image, b.: with notes concerning the building inscribed and dated - on DR1974:0002:012:002 V, DR1974:0002:012:003 R, and DR1974:0002:012:005 R, by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, u.r.: "H. Rohault / Gd prix 1802" inscribed - on some of the drawings, by an unknown hand, in black chalk, in various locations: with competitor's devises inscribed - on a few of the drawings, by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, verso, in various locations: "Rohault" inscribed - on a few on the drawings, by an unknown hand, in graphite or pen and brown or black ink, in various locations: with notes concerning the projects dated and inscribed - on some of the drawings, by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink, in various locations: with the competition name and date and/or with titles dated and inscribed - on DR1974:0002:012:016 V, by an unknown hand, in pen and black ink, l.l.: "médaille au concours du 25 messidor an 9"

Sujet:

architecture
architecture temporaire
urbanisme

Termes descriptifs:

temple
stairs
school (building)
hospital
mosque
market (building)
cascade
monument
administration building
arsenal
town hall
cenotaph
exchanges
college
basilica
country house
commodity exchange
fairs
rest home
stable
grotto
opera house
Beaux-Arts
continuing education centre
decorations
mental hospital
military academies
pension (hotel)
polytechnics
public bath
retirement home
sepulchral chapel
triumphal arches
factory (structure)

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