Lot Essay
According to Bélanger 'de Wailly was among the first to abandon the use of the ruler and the compass in order to elaborate architecture more freely with his brushes', Belanger, Journal de Paris, 1er Frimaire, an VII (1798), p. 261. In 1760 de Wailly was the first architect in 1760 to make use of the Greek ionic order for a Parisian mansion, the Hôtel de Voyer.
A student of Blondel and Legeay, Charles de Wailly won the first prize for architecture in 1752 and became a member of the Academy in 1762. Architect of the Château de Montmusard and the Odéon Théâtre, he designed the pulpit of the Church of Saint-Sulpice and during the Revolution submitted projects for a reconstruction of the Louvre, the Place de la Concorde and the Panthéon.
Drawn during the artist's stay in Rome, this sheet makes use of Bernini's Baldachin at Saint Peter's, anticipating the adaptation of religious architectural motifs for a neoclassical context
A student of Blondel and Legeay, Charles de Wailly won the first prize for architecture in 1752 and became a member of the Academy in 1762. Architect of the Château de Montmusard and the Odéon Théâtre, he designed the pulpit of the Church of Saint-Sulpice and during the Revolution submitted projects for a reconstruction of the Louvre, the Place de la Concorde and the Panthéon.
Drawn during the artist's stay in Rome, this sheet makes use of Bernini's Baldachin at Saint Peter's, anticipating the adaptation of religious architectural motifs for a neoclassical context