underlined the weakness of his scientific justification which mixed fact, fiction, fancy, incongruous comparisons and the most unverifiable conjectures. According to Elisa Boeri, “Assumptions that Duchamp contributed to the possible manipulation of Lequeu's legacy at the National Library now appear to be chimerical”. American art historian and art critic James Elkins considers that this is a deliberate hoax. There is ambiguity surrounding the relations of Lequeu to Surrealism. A kind of retrospective illusion could lead us to see several of Lequeu's drawings through the prism of the paintings by De Chirico, Magritte or Delvaux. But if we refer to the writings of André Breton and his friends, and even to those of Marcel Duchamp, it is very difficult to find any trace of admiration for Lequeu, who is not mentioned either by the first historians of this artistic movement. Lequeu died in Paris in 1826. See also Architecture parlante Claude Nicolas Ledoux Bibliography Jean-Jacques Lequeu, Bâtisseur de fantasmes, sous la direction de Laurent Baridon, de Jean-Philippe Garric et de Martial Guédron, catalogue d’exposition Petit Palais | Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris, du 11 décembre 2018 au 31 mars 2019. Paris : BNF Éditions, Éditions Norma, , 2018 (192 p.). Laurent Baridon, Jean-Philippe Garric et Martial Guédron. Lexique Lequeu. Paris, Éditions B2, , 2018 (222 p.). Elisa Boeri. Jean Jacques Lequeu. Un atlas des mémoires. Paris, Editions des Cendres, , 2018 (240 p.). Philippe Duboy. Lequeu : An Architectural Enigma. MIT Press; (November 29, 1986) Emil Kaufmann. Three Revolutionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, and Lequeu. American Philosophical Society, 1952. Jean-Claude Lemagny. Visionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu. Hennessey & Ingalls; ; (July 2002) Felice Romano, Nouvelle Méethode di Jean-Jacques Lequeu. Ridisegno, analisi grafica e rilettura critica. Milano, FrancoAngeli, , 2021 References External links Lequeu's page with drawings at the BNF 1757 births 1826 deaths Architects from Rouen 18th-century French architects 19th-century French architects French architecture writers French draughtsmen Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery French erotic artists