• Louis-Pierre Baltard (draughtsman)
• Jean Baptiste Rondelet (architect)
• Louis-Pierre Baltard (architect)

Projet pour la Madeleine. Album de 5 dessins (vers 1806).

after 20 December 1806

- Five competition drawings for a Temple of Glory on the site of the Madeleine, Paris, placed in an album by the architects, who also wrote the petition on folio 2. Apparently this album with its five drawings is the complete submission, since the other album guards have no traces of glue. Also received with the album, placed loosely inside it, were two pamphlets for different projects from the same competition. They were inserted at a later date, possibly by the collector Hippolyte-Alexandre-Gabriel-Walter Destailleur, whose bookplate appears on the front endpaper.

• competition drawings

Plume et encre noire avec aquarelle et/ou lavis sur crayon graphite pen and black ink, with watercolour and/or wash, over graphite

album (at binding): 40.6 x 30.3 x 2 cm sheets (range): 39.8 to 116.4 x 37.7 to 114.3 cm

DR1988:0270:001-005

• line drawings
• renderings

• plans (drawings)
• cross sections
• longitudinal section
• elevations (drawings)

- Bound album faced with green parchment. The surface is abraided and the u.r. corner is broken off. Approximately 1" remains of each of the four portfolio ties. Currently, the album contains four folios and twenty-two unused guards. Five drawings were attached to guards, and have been removed from the album and unfolded. The two small booklets, one printed (titled "Conclusion du Rapport,") the other inscribed (titled "Devis Estimatif,") have also been removed.

inscribed - on the front cover of the album, by Rondelet ? in brush and brown ink, u.c.: "PROJET de MONUMENT / sur l'emplacement de / LEGLISE [sic] DE LA MADELAINE. / par / Rondelet membre du Comite Consultatif des / Batiments de la Couronne et Baltard architecte imprinted - on the front endpaper, on the bookplate, c.: "...EX LIBRIS H. DESTAILLEVR" inscribed - on folio 1, by an unknown hand, in graphite, u.c.: "4500 / veule Destailleur No 358." inscribed and signed - on folio 2, by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink: with letter of dedication; verso, l.c.: with continuation of dedication and signatures of Rondelet and Baltard inscribed - by an unknown hand, in pen and brown ink: with titles on each of the drawings inscribed - on each of the guards, by a 20th century hand ? in graphite, b.: with a letter on each guard, from A to X consecutively

• architecture