Charles Percier (1764-1838)


1790.
 The sketchbook, attributed to the architect Charles Percier, was conceivably created during his stay as a pensionnaire at the Académie de France in Rome. Sixty-two pages of the notebook contain pencil and/or ink & wash drawings of Roman architectural fragments, inscriptions, relief sculpture, Greek vases, ancient monuments, plans of Roman villas both ancient and contemporary, portraits, and landscapes.