Personnes et institutions:

Charles Rohault de Fleury (architect)
Charles Rohault de Fleury (draughtsman)
Octave Frères (correspondence writer)
Charles Pouillet (correspondence writer)
Charles Pouillet (contractor)
Unknown, France, mid 19th century (correspondence writer)
Chatin (lithographer)
Ferdinand Laloue (client)
Victor Franconi (client)
Maxentius, Marcus Aurelius Valerius, Emperor of Rome (client)
Marcantonio IV Borghese (client)
Jacob More (architect)

Titre:

Album of drawings and documents for the Hippodrome national, Paris

Date:

1840-1850, printed 1845, published 11 September 1844

Description:

- This album contains plans, elevations and sections as well as written documents - the contract, specifications, work logs, letters and financial records - for the Hippodrome national, Paris. Most of the drawings and documents date from 1845, when the Hippodrome national was constructed, including the contract and contract drawings (DR1974:0002:017:025 and DR1974:0002:017:027 - DR1974:0002:017:031), a description and cost estimate, structural drawings, and plans, sections and elevations, some coloured, showing the various elements of the design. The construction of the building is documented by two work logs, one of which is probably a draft (work log: DR1974:0002:017:017:001-027; draft work log: DR1974:0002:017:044:001-038). The building was designed in the Islamic Revival style. It was constructed primarily of painted canvas stretched on frames and attached to the structural framework (Dupavillion, 81). Several preliminary drawings for the Hippodrome national are included: an elevation and plan dated 1844 and a pencil rendering of an elaborate Moorish façade, probably alternate designs (DR1974:0002:017:004, DR1974:0002:017:026, and DR1974:0002:017:060), and a watercolour perspective view, plan and section (DR1974:0002:017:001 - DR1974:0002:017:003), possibly for a different site, dated February 1845. Four drawings dated February 1846 are for additions to the hippodrome, including a portico on the front of the princes' pavilion, and a pedestrian bridge over the service court entrance (DR1974:0002:017:011, DR1974:0002:017:012, DR1974:0002:017:016 and DR1974:0002:017:037). Plan DR1974:0002:017:015 is probably also related to these additions. It has not been determined if these additions were carried out. Also included are three record drawings of the Circus of Maxentius and the hippodrome at Villa Borghese in Rome; a copy of "L'Entr'acte" containing an article on the proposed construction of a hippodrome (cirque) in Paris; and two letters requesting information on the Hippodrome national.

Classification:
dessins
documents textuels
oeuvres d'art
périodiques

Quantité / Type d’objet:
1 album(s)

Étape et objectif:

contract drawings
design drawings
design development drawings
dessins préliminaires
presentation drawings (proposals)
record drawings
preparatory drawings
dessins de structure

Technique et médium:

Prints include transfer lithographs, some with watercolour, wash, pen and ink and/or graphite, on wove paper

Dimensions:

album: 49,3 x 32,8 x 3,7 cm sheet (smallest): 14,8 x 7,3 cm sheet (largest): 46,3 x 83,3 cm secondary support (smallest): 15,5 x 18,1 cm secondary support (largest): 85,1 x 47,1 cm

Numéro de référence:

DR1974:0002:017:001-060

Type de dessins:

line drawings
finished drawings
freehand drawings
renderings
sketches

Type de document:

correspondance
journals (accounts)
notes
journal
contract documents
specifications
financial records

Méthode de projection:

perspective drawings
pictorial drawings
scale drawings
profile (orthographic drawing)
plans (drawings)
site plans
sections (orthographic drawings)
elevations (drawings)

Point de vue:

general views
partial views
bird's-eye view
exterior views

Caractéristiques matérielles et contraintes techniques:

- This album is bound between album boards covered with marbled paper and a blue leather spine stamped in gold with the album title and several decorative bands. The endpapers are also of marbled paper with a bookplate on the front flyleaf. Most of the drawings and all of the documents are either inserted directly into the album on guards, or mounted on sheets which are inserted on guards. A receipt made out to G. Rohault de Fleury for a subscription to the "Bulletin de L'Oeuvre de Voeu National au Sacré-Coeur de Jesus" is inserted loose between the front flyleaves.

Inscriptions:

inscribed, dated and signed - on many of the drawings, by the architect, in pen and brown or black ink, usually l.r., the following on DR1974:0002:017:001 being typical: "Dressé par l'architecte / SSe Paris ce Février 1845 / Ch. Rohault" [signature omitted on some drawings] signed - on DR1974:0002:017:019, DR1974:0002:017:020, DR1974:0002:017:025, DR1974:0002:017:027 - DR1974:0002:017:031, by the owners and contractors, in pen and brown ink, in various locations: with the owners' and contractors' signatures dated and inscribed - by the draughtsman, on most of the originals, usually l.r., the following on DR1974:0002:017:051 being typical: "Dressé par l'Architecte Soussigné / Paris le 30 Avril 1845"; t.: with titles; and throughout: with dimensions and parts of buildings inscribed - on most of the drawings, by the draughtsman, in graphite or pen and brown, black, or red ink, usually t.: with titles; and throughout: with dimensions dated - on many of the drawings, by an unknown hand, in graphite or pen and brown ink, usually l.r.: with dates signed and dated - on DR1974:0002:017:014, by the correspondent, in graphite, b.: "Octave Frères / Paris le 5 Avril 1850" signed and dated - on DR1974:0002:017:018 R/V, by the correspondent, in pen and brown ink, b.: "... [illeg. signature] / Paris le 22 Octobre 1847" signed and dated - on DR1974:0002:017:022, by the correspondent, in pen and brown ink, c.: "Paris ce trois mois mil [sic] huit cent quarante cinq / Ch Pouillet" dated and inscribed - on DR1974:0002:017:060, by an unknown hand, verso, u.r.: "Projet de ... [illeg.] au 1844" inscribed and dated - on DR1974:0002:017:007, by the draughtsman, in pen and brown ink, c.l.: with a jounal excerpt concerning the Piazza di Siena dated "Rome ce 16 Octobre 1842" inscribed - on DR1974:0002:017:009 and DR1974:0002:017:010, by the draughtsman, in pen and red or black ink, throughout: with names of property owners inscribed - on DR1974:0002:017:054, by an unknown hand, on the original, l.l.: "Lith de Chatin rue Tiquetonne 4"

Sujet:

architecture

Termes descriptifs:

horse racetrack
circuses (Roman arenas)
horseback riding arena

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

Numéro de chemise:

Size II - 010