Temple de la devination A cow's stable Monument à Athéna ; édifice de plan circulaire Temple of equality Lequeu, Jean-Jacques (1757–1826). French visionary Neo-Classicist, he is known for the extraordinary drawings that survive in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. These include a weird ‘Gothic House’ that has nothing Gothic about it, but is in fact a…

Jean-Jaques Lequeu: Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1825) worked as a draughtsman at Rouen, and from 1779 in Paris at the Cadastre, the Ecole Polytechnique, and the Interior Ministry. He created two treatises: Architecture Civile and Nouvelle Méthode Appliquée aux Principes Élémentaires du Dessin, both donated to the Bibliothèque Royale (now Nationale) in July 1825. Lequeu submitted his work for exhibition in the Salons, but was always rejected. He later tried to sell his work by way of advertisements in Paris journals, but also these efforts were largely unsuccessful. Despite the lack of acceptance among his contemporaries, Lequeu is today considered an exceptional architectural visionary of post-revolutionary France together with Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Étienne-Louis Boullée and Antoine Laurent Thomas Vaudoyer.

Jean-Jacques Lequeu (Architect, 1757-1825) worked in France at the same time of Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-1799) and Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) and shared with them his...

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Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon (1707-1788) À la fois naturaliste, mathématicien et biologiste, le comte de Buffon est intendant du Jardin des plantes et en charge du Cabinet d’histoire naturelle du roi Louis XV, de 1739 jusqu’à sa mort. En 1749, il débute la publication de son oeuvre majeure : l’"Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière", où il fait appel à Jacques de Sève et François-Nicolas Martinet pour la réalisation des illustrations.

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As much a visionary architect as peers Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and Étienne-Louis Boullée, Jean-Jacques Lequeu’s genius is a surrealist survey of his world.

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Some sixty of Lequeu’s several hundred drawings will be on view in Jean‐Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect, the first museum retrospective to bring significant public and scholarly attention to one of the most imaginative architects of the Enlightenment.

Jean-Jacques Lequeu: Visionary Architect at the Morgan Library is a gripping survey of the French Revolution-era architect's drawings.

Hôtel de Montholon. Esquisse de la sale [sic] à manger, côté du boulevard : [dessin] / [Jean-Jacques Lequeu] -- 1786 -- images

Hôtel de Montholon. Esquisse de la sale [sic] à manger, côté du poële ; Plan : [dessin] / [Jean-Jacques Lequeu] -- 1786 -- images