a-l-ancien-regime: Gate of a hunting-ground, a project by Jean-Jacques Lequeu Lequeu (1757 – 1826) was a French draughtsman and architect. Lequeu produced some of the most imaginative landscape and architectural designs, some a masterful combination of the Gothic, the Egyptian, the Greek, the Chinese, and a smattering of hallucinations. However, except for two folies in Rouen, none were ever constructed. He was somewhat of a pornographer as well and at least in his self-portraits, a cross-dresser.  see Phillippe Duboy’s essay on the artist, titled An Architectural Enigma or peruse his entire collection online at the BNF’s Gallica website

a-l-ancien-regime:

Gate of a hunting-ground, a project by Jean-Jacques Lequeu

Lequeu (1757 – 1826) was a French draughtsman and architect. Lequeu produced some of the most imaginative landscape and architectural designs, some a masterful combination of the Gothic, the Egyptian, the Greek, the Chinese, and a smattering of hallucinations. However, except for two folies in Rouen, none were ever constructed. He was somewhat of a pornographer as well and at least in his self-portraits, a cross-dresser. 

see Phillippe Duboy’s essay on the artist, titled An Architectural Enigma or peruse his entire collection online at the BNF’s Gallica website