AUGUSTE-ALEXANDRE GUILLAUMOT (PARIS 1815 - MARLY LE ROI 1892)
Design for a Fountain project in Les Batignolles, Paris
signed Ate Guillaumot/ a Batignolles, rue Lemercier No 2, dated 30 juin 1859
watercolour on paper over black chalk on paper
240 x 305 mm (9 1/2 x 12 in.)
watermark running along the lower edge

The present work is an early design for a fountain project, never realised, in the Batignolles area in Paris where Auguste-Alexandre Guillaumot had his studio at 2, rue Lemercier before moving to Marly-le-Roi. The present work depicts a design project Guillaumot and various inscriptions suggesting the fountain engineering, as opposed to the known group of drawings recording the various views of the Château de Marly (see Bibliotheque Nationale de France, Paris).

We are grateful to Bruno Bentz for kindly dating the present architectural drawing to early in the career of Auguste-Alexandre Guillaumot.