Design album [photographs], ca.1798-1804.

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Design album [photographs], ca.1798-1804.

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Black-and-white photographs of an album containing Neoclassical designs by Percier and Fontaine, the original of which is at the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. The designs are for rooms, mantels, a bed with curtains, a sofa or daybed, furniture legs, a globe stand, ceilings, and statues of Athena and Zeus. One drawing depicts a woman reading in a Neo-classical room. Another sketch shows a monumental building near a river.

24 items : chiefly ill. ; 21 x 26 cm. or smaller.

Winterthur Library

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Winterthur Library

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Percier, Charles, 1764-1838

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Charles Percier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine were French engravers, draftsmen, and painters who specialized in architectural subjects. They were frequent collaborators. From the description of Design album [photographs], ca.1798-1804. (Winterthur Library). WorldCat record id: 122649308 French architect. From the description of Choix des plus celebres maisons de plaisance de Rome & de ses environs, 1809. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id...

Fontaine, Pierre François Léonard, 1762-1853

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French architect and painter. From the description of Plans coupes et elevations des ouvrages de charpente executes au Palais du Louvre... par M. Fontaine, Architecte, M. Bernier, Inspecteur (designs for renovation of the Louvre), 1805-1814. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81364550 Pierre Fontaine was an architect for the government and, along with his associate Percier, remodelled and built many of the famous Parisian constructions, first for Napoleon Bonaparte, then for Lou...