In 1795 the Place Louis XVI was renamed the Place de la Concorde, the bridge was embellished with twelve statues of Great Men in 1827, and an obelisk was erected in 1836 under the direction of the architect J.I. Hittorff. In 1834, the Place de la Concorde was selected as the location for the ninth exhibition of 'the Products of French Industry', which inspired Hector Horeau to produce a series of designs for temporary structures to be erected for the exhibition.
The present drawing is a perspectival view of a project published by Horeau the following year, Projet de salles d'expositions pour les produits de l'art et de l'industrie, Paris, 1835, in which he copies the planing of two buildings parallel to the Champs Elysées from a preceding project by the architect Hittorff. Horeau went on to produce a definitive plan in his Mémoire sur l'embellissement des Champs Elysées et les avantages que le gouvernement et la population parisienne doivent en retirer, Paris, 1836, and exhibited his drawings at the Salon of 1837. Unfortunately, despite his active pursuit of potential patrons, Horeau was unable to interest anybody in his designs, a fate which much of his prolific output of projects and writings suffered