Projets D'Architecture Et Autres Productions De Cet Art, Qui Ont Mérités Les Grands Prix Accordés par l'Académie, par l'Institut national de France, et par des Jurys du choix des Artistes ou du Gouvernement. Prix.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
04/3194
Variant Title
Grands Prix D'Architecture
Imprint
A Paris,: Chez Détournelle, Rue du Théatre-Français, F.-St.-G. No. 38. De L'Imprimerie De J. Charles, Rue De Seine, F.-St.-G. No. 16., 1806.
Physical Description
[2] p., add. t.pl., [120] pl. (unnumbered in some copies; in others, numbered top right); 529 mm. (Folio.)
Contents
[T.p.] - Table Générale Des Projets Gravés Dans Ce Volume ... - [Plates].
Responsibility Note
The plates are not signed by draughtsmen or engravers. Their captions name the original designer-architects.
References
RIBA, Early printed books, I (1994), no. 12.
On the influence of the Paris Ecole Des Beaux Arts see R. Middleton, ed., The Beaux-Arts and nineteenth-century French architecture (1982).
Summary Note
This work was issued serially in twenty cahiers, each containing six plates, between 1802 and 1806. The title on the added engraved title-plate reads, 'Grands Prix D'Architecture Projets couronnés par l'Academie D'Architecture et par l'Institut de France. Gravés et publiés par Allais, Détournelle et Vaudoyer, A Paris. M.DCCC.VI.'
The plates show award-winning monumental projects entered in state or academic competitions between 1791 and 1805. In the Academy's incomplete set they show: [1]Monument to Desaix, by Barthelemy Vignon, 1801; [2] and [3] (these plates appear to be inserts; they are numbered Pl. I, II, show a method and project of Philibert Delorme, are signed as drawn by Detournelle and engraved by Carpentier, and the first carries the imprint of Detournelle, Paris, 'An 8' [i.e. 1800]); [4, 5] Prison, by Détournelle, 1795; [6, 7] Elysée or cemetery, by Granjean, 1799; [8-10] Basilica, by Hippolyte Lebas, 1801; [11-13] Granary, by Coussin, 1797; [14] Fountains, by Durand and Thibaut, 1793; [15-18] Forum, by Famin, 1801; [19-21] Ecole National Des Beaux Arts, by Vallot, 1800; [22] Arc de Triomphe, by Philibert Moitte, 1795; [23, 24] Elysée or cemetery, by Granjean, 1799; [25-27] Granary, by Dubut, 1797; [28, 29] Column, by Moreau, 1800; [30] Monument (obelisk), by Sobre, 1795; [31, 32] Temple, by Durand and Thibaut, 1795; [33-35] Ecole National Des Beaux Arts, by Ménager, 1800; [36] Rostral column, by Normand, 1791; [37, 38] Gallery, by Delagardette, 1791; [39, 40] Elysée or cemetery, by Gasse, 1799; [41-43] Tribunal, by Barthelemy Vignon, 1795; [44-46] Fair, by Rohaut, 1802; [47, 48] Market, by Normand, 1792; [49, 50] Maritime bourse, by Clemence, 1798. The complete set shows also work by J.-A. Alavoine, Bellet, Bergognon, Blanchon, Dedeban, Delabarre, Faivre, Gay, Guenepin, Guignet, Hibon, Hurtault, Labadye, Lahure, Pagot, Percier, Pompon, Tardieu, Vallot.
Provenance
31 December 1802: 'Mr Flaxman Moved, that a Work now publishing in France (in Numbers) entitled - 'The Prize projects in Architecture' be taken, for depositing in the Library. Which was seconded by M.r Shee, And was Unanimous.' (RA Council Minutes III, 169).
4 March 1803: 'The President produced the 8 first Numbers of a Work Publishing in Paris; entitled Grands Prix D'Architecture to be deposited in the Library of the Royal Academy, which was Approved: - & the President gave an Order to the Treasurer for payment - amounting to £2-5-0' (RA Council Minutes III, 175).
Although at a meeting of Council on 29 December 1820 the newly elected President Sir Thomas Lawrence 'undertook to procure from the continent' the 'Continuation of the Grands Prix d'Architecture' (see RA Council Minutes VI, 184-185) there is no evidence that further cahiers of either this volume or its successors were ever acquired for the Library.
Copy Note
Imperfect: lacks the letter-press text and added engraved title-plate; and contains 48 pl. only (the first eight cahiers?). Two additional pl. have been inserted. The plates have been numbered by hand in ink, 1-50.
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