Hardcover
1806 · Paris
by GRANDS PRIX DARCHITECTURE -- LINSTITUT DE FRANCE -- DETOURNELLE, ALLAIS, and VAUDOYER
Paris: Detournelle & J. Charles, 1806. Hardcover. Very Good+. Elephant folio (500 x 340mm). Collation complete: 120 plates of French Architecture and plans, including the Arc de Triomphe, Place de la Concorde, and other famous Academy projects. With woodcut vignette of cornucopia and muse on title-page, table generale listing architectural designs, and copper engraved title-page listing academy members. Three-quarter calf-backed over tree-design boards; (scattered marginal foxing). Late 19th-century armorial bookplate of Hoffmann (Josef Franz Maria Hoffmann) on front pastedown. Hoffmann (1870-1956) was an influential Austrian architect who won the Rome Prize in 1895. Known for his contributions to the arts and crafts movement, Hoffmann also designed rooms for the Paris Expositions Universelle in 1900. Second series of this magnificent collection of the 1806 Projets dArchitecture, 120 fine French Academy competition plates by Allais, Detournelle and Vaudoyer, which followed a previous publication of Prieur (c. 1787-1801), originally issued in 20 cahiers. As these Grands Prix engravings show, Academy neoclassicists revived eclectic motifs from antiquity with their prominent use of obelisks, pyramids, and blank walls in their design. Egpytianizing forms were becoming part of the landscape of Parisian architecture and were used to achieve a solemn appearance; this style was fascinating to young Academics who still wanted to maintain regal tradition. Notably, the Grands Prix drawings contain the Chapelle Sepulchrale by la Barre which demonstrated many of these Egyptian design elements including, Pantheon-domes, pyramids, sphinxes, and sarcophagi. This fine production of accomplished watercolors was primarily meant for the education of young Academics in this successful architectural style. Many plates include the scale, given in French toises or metres. It continued the Collection des Prix (1787-1801) and was continued as the Grands Prix dArchitecture in 1818.
Second series of this magnificent collection of the 1806 Projets dArchitecture, 120 fine French Academy competition plates by Allais, Detournelle and Vaudoyer, which followed a previous publication of Prieur (c. 1787-1801), originally issued in 20 cahiers. As these Grands Prix engravings show, Academy neoclassicists revived eclectic motifs from antiquity with their prominent use of obelisks, pyramids, and blank walls in their design. Egpytianizing forms were becoming part of the landscape of Parisian architecture and were used to achieve a solemn appearance; this style was fascinating to young Academics who still wanted to maintain regal tradition. Notably, the Grands Prix drawings contain the Chapelle Sepulchrale by la Barre which demonstrated many of these Egyptian design elements including, Pantheon-domes, pyramids, sphinxes, and sarcophagi. This fine production of accomplished watercolors was primarily meant for the education of young Academics in this successful architectural style. Many plates include the scale, given in French toises or metres. It continued the Collection des Prix (1787-1801) and was continued as the Grands Prix dArchitecture in 1818. (Inventory #: SAVLD129)
Second series of this magnificent collection of the 1806 Projets dArchitecture, 120 fine French Academy competition plates by Allais, Detournelle and Vaudoyer, which followed a previous publication of Prieur (c. 1787-1801), originally issued in 20 cahiers. As these Grands Prix engravings show, Academy neoclassicists revived eclectic motifs from antiquity with their prominent use of obelisks, pyramids, and blank walls in their design. Egpytianizing forms were becoming part of the landscape of Parisian architecture and were used to achieve a solemn appearance; this style was fascinating to young Academics who still wanted to maintain regal tradition. Notably, the Grands Prix drawings contain the Chapelle Sepulchrale by la Barre which demonstrated many of these Egyptian design elements including, Pantheon-domes, pyramids, sphinxes, and sarcophagi. This fine production of accomplished watercolors was primarily meant for the education of young Academics in this successful architectural style. Many plates include the scale, given in French toises or metres. It continued the Collection des Prix (1787-1801) and was continued as the Grands Prix dArchitecture in 1818. (Inventory #: SAVLD129)