Descriptive Summary
Biographical / Historical Note
Administrative Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Charles-Edouard Isabelle drawings of ancient sites in Italy
Date (inclusive): 1826-1827
Number: 900096
Creator/Collector:
Isabelle, Charles-Edouard, 1800-1880
Physical Description:
10.0 linear feet
(6 boxes)
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: The collection comprises 163 drawings made by the French architect Charles-Edouard Isabelle (1800-1880) during his travels
to Italy and Croatia between 1826 and 1827. Most drawings are of Pompeii. Also present are drawings of other ancient Roman
sites in the Campania and in Pula, Croatia, as well as drawings of medieval architecture in Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, and Umbria.
Drawings document floor plans, cross sections, elevations, and detailed renderings of architectural decoration.
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Language: Collection material is in
French
Biographical / Historical Note
The French architect Charles-Edouard Isabelle was born in 1800 in Le Havre and died in 1880 in Paris. He studied at the École
des beaux-arts in Paris under Achille Leclerc. Between 1824 and 1828 he travelled in Italy,primarily to Naples, Pompeii, and
Tuscany. After his return to France Isabelle won first prize for his design of the customs building in Rouen. He taught architecture
and constructed the school buildings of the Écoles des arts et métiers in Châlon and Angers, as well as other structures in
Plombières, Paris, Béziers, and Rouen. His publications include
Parallèle des salles rondes antiques et modernes,
Tombeau de Napoléon, and
Édifices circulaires et dômes.
Administrative Information
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Open for use by qualified researchers.
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Preferred Citation
Charles-Edouard Isabelle drawings of ancient sites in Italy, 1826-1827. Research Library, The Getty Research Insititute, Accession
no. 900096.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa900096
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the repository in 1990.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection comprises 163 drawings made by Isabelle during his travels in Italy and Croatia. In Italy Isabelle visited
Pompeii, Naples, Pozzuoli, and Benevento in Campania, and various cities in Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna, and Umbria. In Croatia
he visited Pula.
Most drawings are of ancient Roman antiquities, mainly of Pompeii. Also included are drawings of medieval architecture, especially
church buildings. Drawings are floor plans, cross sections, elevations, or detailed renderings of architectural decoration.
Also present are drawings of sculpture, and minor arts such as vessels or lampstands.
Drawings are executed in pencil on paper or tracing paper; some in black or red ink; several are enhanced with watercolor.
Most include inscribed captions and measurements and are dated 1826 or 1827. All are mounted on paper sheets 50 x 32.5 cm.
in size.
Arrangement
Arranged by topic. The topical arrangement corresponds to a pre-existing numbering system consisting of the number 36 and
a letter, inscribed in pencil in the upper right corner of mount. Some drawings bear additional numbers on the mounts.
Organized in five series:
Series I. Pompeii, 1826;
Series II. Museum in Naples,1826;
Series III. Pozzuoli and Benevento, 1826;
Series IV. Other Sites in Italy, 1826;
Series V. Pula, Croatia, 1827.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Corporate Bodies
Real Museo borbonico (Naples, Italy)
Temple of Augustus (Pula, Croatia)
Temple of Serapis (Pozzuoli, Italy)
Subjects - Topics
Antiquities, Roman--Italy--Naples
Arch of Trajan (Benevento, Italy)
Architecture, Domestic--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)
Church buildings--Italy--Tuscany--Designs and plans.
Church buildings--Italy--Umbria--Designs and plans.
Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)
Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Italy.
Dwellings--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)--Designs and plans
Forums, Roman--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)
Slavoluk Sergijevaca (Pula, Croatia)
Temples--Croatia--Designs and plans.
Temples--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)--Designs and plans.
Temples--Italy--Pozzuoli.
Theaters--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)--Designs and plans.
Tombs--Italy--Pompeii (Extinct city)
Triumphal arches--Croatia.
Triumphal arches--Italy--Benevento.
Subjects - Places
Benevento (Italy)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Croatia--Antiquities, Roman.
Italy--Antiquities, Roman
Pompeii (Extinct city)--Antiquities
Pompeii (Extinct city)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Pozzuoli (Italy)--Buildings, structures, etc.
Pula (Croatia)--Buildings, structures etc.
Triangular Forum (Pompeii)
Genres and Forms of Material
Architectural drawings--Italy--19th century.
Cross sections--Italy--19th century
Drawings--Italy--19th century.
Elevations (drawings)--Italy--19th century.
Floor plans--Italy--19th century.