Collection
of the CPAS of the City of Brussels
MAPS AND PLANS
Martin DE TAILLY (ca 1592-1652), Bruxella nobilissima brabantia civitas, eink on paper, 1748, Inv. CP 430.
This collection brings together most of the old maps and plans from the charitable institutions of the Ancien Régime. In particular, we find the atlas-terriers drawn in the 18th century by land surveyors, such as those made for Saint John's Hospital or the Saint-Pierre leprosarium.
These documents contain essential topographical and historical information about Brussels and the surrounding countryside.
Plan of Brugmann Hospital by Victor Horta (1861-1947), approved by the Hospices et Secours Council in 1909, watercolor and ink on paper.
Plan of Brugmann Hospital by Victor Horta (1861-1947), approved by the Hospices en Secours Council in 1909. Watercolor and ink on paper.
Alongside this main series, the archives also keep the plans of all establishments built by the CPAS or its predecessors (Council of Hospices and Relief and Public Assistance Commission).
These plans are often signed by a few big names in architecture since Henry Partoes (Grand Hospice and second Saint-Jean hospital) up to Gaston Brunfault and Stanislas Jasinski (Institut Bordet) via Victor Horta (Brugmann hospital), Jean-Baptiste Dewin (third Saint-Pierre hospital) or even Michael Polack (Eastman Institute).
Atlas-terrier of the Saint-Jean hospital, 1708.
Watercolor and ink on paper.