Guillaume Tronchet (1868-1969), Pavilion Of France In Dresden 1911, Watercolor On Panel.

Impressive watercolor by the architect Guillaume Tronchet testifying to France's participation in the Universal Exhibition in Dresden. Signed lower right. Very good general condition. Dimensions: with frame: 77 x 101 cm, visible: 53.5 x 79.5 cm. An internationally renowned architect, Guillaume Tronchet was one of the notable architects of the pavilions of the 1900 Universal Exhibition in Paris. Guillaume Tronchet enrolled at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris in the studio of Louis-Jules André, which became that of Victor Laloux in 1890. Graduating in 1891, he received the Second Second Grand Prix de Rome in 1892, the subject of the final test of which was entitled “A museum of artillery”. He built the Mont-Royal castle for Fernand Halphen in La Chapelle-en-Serval near Chantilly (Oise). After rejecting an Anglo-Norman style project by the architect René Sergent, then a first medieval style project (drawings, Musée d'Orsay collection), the client chose Guillaume Tronchet's second project: a Louis XVI style castle celebrating hunting on the outside and music on the inside. Built from 1907 to 1911, the building is a great architectural success (now converted into a hotel). He is responsible for the Ministry of Health building, completed in 8 months in 1929. Chief architect of civil buildings and national palaces, Tronchet was entrusted in 1929 by Louis Loucheur, Minister of Labor, with the task of building the new Ministry building in just eight months, on Place de Fontenoy in Paris (7th arrondissement). He used the most modern materials and techniques and renowned artists for the decoration: the Martel brothers for the sculpture and Jacques Grüber for the stained glass windows. Today, a foundation perpetuates his memory and awards, as part of the annual ceremony of the Academy of Fine Arts, a prize intended to encourage a young artist who is most often an architect.