Drawings & Red Chalk Drawings

Charles-Auguste Questel was a member of the Commission des Monuments historiques from 1848 to 1879. Architect of the Civil Buildings of Versailles in 1849, he became Inspector General in 1862 and a member of the Institute in 1871. He restored the church of Saint-Gilles-du-Gard (1840), the theatre and amphitheatre of Arles (1841-1946), the church of Saint-Maurice in Vienna (1842), that of Saint-Philibert de Tournus (1845-1848). He was also in charge of the Roman monuments of Nîmes, the Pont du Gard, with the help of Laisné, the Temple of Augustus and Silvia and the Church of Saint Peter. He was