Bust of Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Royal Saltworks

Bust of the architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, by Nacera Kainou, exhibited in the Director's House or Maison du Directeur, at the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The Director's House includes an assembly room, offices, bank, apartments, chapel, servants quarters and a basement for storage. The saltworks site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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13437611

Media ID

45129831

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4724px x 7087px (7.6MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen