Jean-Jacques Lequeu

Jean-Jacques Lequeu From the Collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France 1757, Rouen – 1826, Paris. His father, a renowned carpenter and skilled draftsman, was undoubtedly the inspiration behind his vocation. Apart from one or two exceptions, Jean-Jacques Lequeu designed architectural projects that never saw the light of day, thus giving free rein to his boundless imagination, which was at once utopian, parodic and extremely erudite. His works consisted of a profusion of details of remarkable graphic and chromatic refinement. Ignored during his lifetime he was rediscovered by the art historian Emil Kaufmann in 1949.