Obélisque, style Louis XVI, dans un jardin, 10 rue Cassini, début XIXème siècle, D.1352, Theodor Josef Hubert Hoffbauer, Vers 1901 — 1905

Author(s): hoffbauer, fédor (neuss, 13–10–1839 - paris, 28–10–1922), designer production date: around 1901 — 1905 type(s) of object(s): graphic arts, drawing name(s): drawing dimensions - artwork: height: 30. 8cm width: 23. 6cm dimensions - museum master key: height: 50cm width: 40cm marks, inscriptions, hallmarks: signature - lower left, in watercolor: "t hoffbauer" inscription - on the front of the piece (nº1) of the montage, plan drawn in pencil of the place where the stele is located: street plan, the observatory with the inscription of the names of the streets and establishments: "observatoire", "rue du faubourg saint jacques", "cochin", "maternité", "rue cassini". \ pencil inscription inscription concerning the model - on the front of piece nº1 of the assembly, top right, handwritten in pen and black ink: "hoffbauer / rue classini" (the "l" of "classini" is crossed out in pencil). \ inscription in ink stamp - stamp, bottom right: "carnavalet" and "ville de paris". Dry buffer from the house "al bristol". Iconographic description: garden obelisk, from the louis xvi and early 19th centuries, house at 10, rue cassini, 14th arrondissement. Courtyard, neoclassical architecture, sculpture. Monolithic column, reused obelisk, dionysian iconography: borghese dancers, attribute of bacchus: stick with pine cone, garlands of foliage, first empire style base, molded base, plant decoration, bucranes. Vegetation, trees, dead leaves. On the front of piece nº1 of the montage: map of the observatory district. Historical commentary: street formerly called rue des deux-anges, des deux-maillets, des charbonniers and maillot (until 1790). Cf. J. Hillairet, historical dictionary of the streets of paris, reed. 1987, t. 1, p. 282 and to find out more about the monuments erected to the glory of louis xvi: "the royal family in paris", 1993, carnavalet museum, p. 91-108 and p. 117-following. This monument comes from a folie from the louis xvi period, transported to the garden of the house of a certain mr cotteret (cf. M. De rochegude, walks in all the streets of paris by arrondissement, the 14th, p. 43. Stele dedicated to louis xvi? decorative program of the dionysian type obelisk, cf. P. Sorel. Themes / subjects / places represented: urban landscape mode of acquisition: purchase date of acquisition: 20–02–1905 institution: carnavalet museum, history of paris inventory number: d. 1352. Date: Vers 1901 — 1905.