Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826)

Six months before disappearing into destitution and oblivion, Jean Jacques Lequeu deposited one of the most singular and fascinating graphic works of his time in the Bibliothèque nationale. This set of several hundred drawings presented here to the public in its entirety for the first time, testifies, beyond the first stages of an architect's career, to the solitary and haunting drift of an extraordinary artist.