Elevation of the Façade of the Hôtel de Montholon, Paris

Jean Jacques Lequeu French
 François Soufflot le Neuveu French

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The façade depicted in this drawing is of the so-called Hôtel de Montholon, a commission given to François Soufflot le Romain and executed by Jean Jacques Lequeu for the wealthy magistrate and later president of the Parlement of Normandy, Nicolas de Montholon. The hôtel is situated on 23, boulevard Poissonnière in Paris (previously the Boulevard Montmartre). A print after this drawing, also by Lequeu exists in the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris and might suggest that Lequeu intended to publish all the designs for the Hôtel, most of which are part of an album donated by Lequeu to the Bibliothèque Nationale before his death.

Elevation of the Façade of the Hôtel de Montholon, Paris, Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, Rouen 1757–1825 Paris), Pen and black and gray ink, brush and gray and blue wash; two framing lines in pen and black ink around image and inscription

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Elevation of the Façade of the Hôtel de Montholon, Paris, Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, Rouen 1757–1825 Paris), Pen and black and gray ink, brush and gray and blue wash; two framing lines in pen and black ink around image and inscription
Elevation of the Façade of the Hôtel de Montholon, Paris, Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, Rouen 1757–1825 Paris), Pen and black and gray ink, brush and gray and blue wash; two framing lines in pen and black ink around image and inscription

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