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Jean Jacques Lequeu - Profils des archivoltes des deux arcs. Croisées des deux pignons de l’église au-dessus de la tablette de la balustrade

Profils des archivoltes des deux arcs. Croisées des deux pignons de l’église au-dessus de la tablette de la balustrade

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
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Jean Jacques Lequeu

Jean-Jacques Lequeu was a French draughtsman and architect.
Born in Rouen, he won a scholarship to go to Paris. Following the French Revolution Lequeu's architectural career never took off. He spent time preparing the Architecture Civile, a book intended for publication, but which was never published. He became a civil servant working as a surveyor and a cartographer until his retirement in 1815.

Lequeu is now considered part of the period of "visionary architecture" which developed in the period leading up to the French Revolution. This was directly influenced by the great competitions organised by the École des Beaux-Arts. These competitions encouraged entries comprising massive buildings unfettered by budgetary constraints. This resulted in scores of designs for vast and impressive buildings which had little connection with the real world and remained "paper architecture". Architects of this genre include Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Étienne-Louis Boullée, and Antoine Laurent Thomas Vaudoyer; most of these, like Lequeu, are more famous for their unbuilt works than for buildings actually constructed.

Most of his drawings can be found at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Some of them are pornographic and are kept in the Enfer of the library. They include a cow barn in the shape of an Assyrian bovine; an erotic garden folly called the Hammock of Love, replete with a copulating couple; a priapic fountain in a Gothic tabernacle and two self-portraits in drag. Most of these drawings have been reproduced in Duboy's book in 1986. More recently, an exhibition took place at the Musee du Petit-Palais (Paris) in December 2018.

Lequeu's historiography has led to a deep reflection. It was only at the middle of the 20th century that he was rediscovered by the Viennese historian Emil Kaufmann. Kaufmann saw in Lequeu a "revolutionary architect" as well as Boullée and Ledoux, but this epithet must be used with caution: although some of his drawings express sympathy for Revolutionary ideas, his views seem to have evolved in line with social and political changes.

It was not until 1986, however, that the first monograph devoted to Lequeu was published, written by architect and architectural historian Philippe Duboÿ. This pioneering work takes the controversial view that Lequeu's work is partially the result of a deliberate manipulation involving Marcel Duchamp. As early as 1987, the theorist and historian of architecture Joseph Rykwert, in a review of Duboÿ's book, underlined the weakness of his scientific justification which mixed fact, fiction, fancy, incongruous comparisons and the most unverifiable conjectures. According to Elisa Boeri, “Assumptions that Duchamp contributed to the possible manipulation of Lequeu's legacy at the National Library now appear to be chimerical”. American art historian and art critic James Elkins considers that this is a deliberate hoax.

There is ambiguity surrounding the relations of Lequeu to Surrealism. A kind of retrospective illusion could lead us to see several of Lequeu's drawings through the prism of the paintings by De Chirico, Magritte or Delvaux. But if we refer to the writings of André Breton and his friends, and even to those of Marcel Duchamp, it is very difficult to find any trace of admiration for Lequeu, who is not mentioned either by the first historians of this artistic movement.

Lequeu died in Paris in 1826.

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Ce porche ou vestibule, qui sert d’entrée aux lieux souterreins, et a la demeure de Pluton, donne sur le côté droit de la face latérale du temple de la Sagesse

Ce porche ou vestibule, qui sert d’entrée aux lieux souterreins, et a la demeure de Pluton, donne sur le côté droit de la face latérale du temple de la Sagesse (1777-1825)

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
Elévations géométrales du cercle de Mr. Bordea

Elévations géométrales du cercle de Mr. Bordea (1825)

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
Elévation principale du casin à partie, sis au hameau de plaisance, fort près de l’oseraye et de la charmoye, renant à la cerisaye

Elévation principale du casin à partie, sis au hameau de plaisance, fort près de l’oseraye et de la charmoye, renant à la cerisaye (1777-1825)

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
La becasse, le petit pigeon couronné, la perdrix de mer, le papillon et mouche

La becasse, le petit pigeon couronné, la perdrix de mer, le papillon et mouche (1777-1825)

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
Fontaines isolée et adossée d’unapartement

Fontaines isolée et adossée d’unapartement (1786)

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
Dessin qui représente avec des figures, par quelle(s) teintes, et comment on doit laver les plans, élévations et profils des corps opaques

Dessin qui représente avec des figures, par quelle(s) teintes, et comment on doit laver les plans, élévations et profils des corps opaques (1777-1825)

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
Caisse avec roses – Symbole de la volupté

Caisse avec roses – Symbole de la volupté

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
L’une des façades simples de la ménagerie du lieu le plus désert, dit, des transformations

L’une des façades simples de la ménagerie du lieu le plus désert, dit, des transformations (1777-1825)

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
Orthographie de la sépulture des plus illustres et savans hommes, dans le bois au nord-est de La Hay et près le Voorhout

Orthographie de la sépulture des plus illustres et savans hommes, dans le bois au nord-est de La Hay et près le Voorhout (1777-1825)

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
Louis douze assis dans son anti-salle, à la table de son grand échanson avec une famille de paysans… ; Acte 3e scène 6e de Louis XII comédie de Mr Valcour

Louis douze assis dans son anti-salle, à la table de son grand échanson avec une famille de paysans… ; Acte 3e scène 6e de Louis XII comédie de Mr Valcour (1791)

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
La maison appellée la laiterie, est faite de charpente de diverses couleurs, rendue inconbustible

La maison appellée la laiterie, est faite de charpente de diverses couleurs, rendue inconbustible (1777-1825)

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
Le retable et contreretable de la chapelle de la Sainte Vierge du château

Le retable et contreretable de la chapelle de la Sainte Vierge du château (1777-1825)

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
Plusieurs arcades du Panthéon consacré aux Apôtres

Plusieurs arcades du Panthéon consacré aux Apôtres (1777-1825)

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
Le château de plaisance composé d’un corps de logis quadrilatère à angles égaux

Le château de plaisance composé d’un corps de logis quadrilatère à angles égaux (1777-1825)

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
Les Priapées des Satyres et Bacchantes

Les Priapées des Satyres et Bacchantes

Jean Jacques Lequeu (French, 1757-1826)
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