Portrait of Claude Nicolas Ledoux, Royal Saltworks

Portrait of the architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, detail, c. 1790, oil painting on canvas by Martin Drolling, 1752-1817, from the collection of the Musee Carnavalet, exhibited 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 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 Georges Fessy / Collection Manuel Cohen

Picture No

13437651

Media ID

45130132

Size

3066px x 3684px (6.4MB)

Credit

Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans

Source

Photograph by Manuel Cohen