Pierre Breau et les enjeux du dessin d'architecture au temps de Colbert

• Autores: Alexandre Cojannot
• Localización: Revue de l'art, ISSN 0035-1326, Nº. 195, 2017, págs. 9-22
• Idioma: francés
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• Resumen

  • Pierre Breau and the Concerns of Architectural Drawings during Colbert's Time.

    From the beginning of his career around 1660 until his fall for malfeasance in 1683, the architect Pierre Breau gained recognition as an important and singular actor in the royal architecture at the beginning of the personal reign of Louis XIV,especially as the associate of the king's masonry contractors and as chief of construction at the sites of the Louvre and the Tuileries, then as superintendant Colbert's man of confidence and director of his private works in Paris and in Sceaux, and then finally as controller of the King's buildings in Clagny and in Versailles. The nature of his activities can be analyzed in light of the very numerous graphic documents that he, himself, produced or had executed by the draughtsman in his hire. Of exceptional quality, this documentation reveals the increasing importance accorded to architectural drawing as a tool for technical, administrative and legal control, in the service of more exacting project management. It thus sheds light on the evolution of the architect's responsabilities in the process of the execution of works and the necessary development of his professional entourage, at a time when the first "agencies" appeared.