DUBAN, Félix - Lot 57

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DUBAN, Félix - Lot 57
DUBAN, Félix Maison Mauresque Algiers. [ca. 1835-1865]. Nine drawings on six sheets, 8 on tracing paper mounted on paper. Graphite, pen and watercolor (between 11.5 x 12 cm and 26 x 46.8 cm on a 30 x 49 cm sheet) (soiling, slight foxing, one sheet slightly creased, small loss on a tracing paper, without affecting the drawing). The set includes : Moorish house Algiers. Etruscan Tomb Details of ornamentation on an entrance door to a Moorish house in Algiers. Two untitled drawings: Details of ornamentation Detail of canopy 1/4 detail of Alger Maison Mauresque. Details of ornamentation Maison Mauresque - Algiers [Untitled]: Small general view of the house and details of ornamentation. A precious testimony to Duban's interest in Algerian domestic architecture in the early decades of the French presence. The architect was fascinated by the polychromy and spatial organization of Moorish houses, and here notes their decorative and constructive elements. This drawing belongs to the group of studies Duban carried out when documenting Algerian interiors, revealing his attention to materials, geometric patterns and decorative assemblages. Winner of the Grand Prix d'Architecture in 1823, Félix Duban stayed in Italy between 1823 and 1828 as a boarder at the Académie de France in Rome. This decisive period in his training gave rise to an important series of architectural surveys and studies, comparable sets of which are preserved in the library of the École des Beaux-Arts.
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