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Source URL (retrieved on 2021-11-09 18:52): http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/signatures

Signatures

Signatures [1]

image/jpeg iconSource: Photo provided by Marie-Claude Langevin [2]
image/jpeg iconSource: Photo provided by Marie-Claude Langevin [3]
Location:
Palais de justice de Montréal, 1 Notre-Dame Street East, Montréal, QC, Canada

Artwork identification

Artwork creator(s): 
Brière, Marie-France
Text author(s): 
Brière, Marie-France
Installation year: 
2002
Remarks on location: 

Located in the "Allée des huissiers" (Bailiffs' Alley)

Description: 

The artwork is composed of three elements. Steel panels stand vertically on the floor. Marble plates are affixed to them in such a way as to evoke an open book. Each plate bears a signature in relief.

Text of the artwork: 

Jean de Saint-Père

Michel Le Pailleur

Jean-Baptiste Decoste

Text theme: 
Names of notaries
Artwork theme: 
Justice
Note(s): 

Jean de Saint-Père was Montreal's first clerk of the court and first notary, in 1648.

Michel Le Pailleur was a notary from 1701 to 1702.

Jean-Baptiste Decoste was a notary in 1732.

Owner(s): 
Société immobilière du Québec
Document(s): 
L’intégration des arts à l’architecture et à l'environnement. Bilan 2002-2004
MCCCQ (2004).  L’intégration des arts à l’architecture et à l'environnement. Bilan 2002-2004. Québec : Gouvernement du Québec
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Links:
[1] http://plepuc.org/en/artwork/signatures
[2] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/IMGP0730.JPG
[3] http://plepuc.org/sites/plepuc.org/files/IMGP0731.JPG
[4] http://www.addthis.com/bookmark.php
[5] http://plepuc.org/en/print/448
[6] http://plepuc.org/fr/oeuvre/signatures