Elevation of the Facade of the Hôtel de Montholon, Paris 1785–86 Jean Jacques Lequeu French 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

Elevation of the Facade of the Hôtel de Montholon, Paris 1785–86 Jean Jacques Lequeu French 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 Elevation of the Facade of the Hôtel de Montholon, Paris 343457

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