Charles De Wailly

Biography

He was the pupil of the School of Arts of Jacques François Blondel in 1749, where he met William Chambers and had as a school-fellow Marie-Joseph Peyre, and, later, of Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni. After having obtained, in 1752, large the Price of Rome of architecture, it remained with the Académie from France to Rome during three years until in 1755, sharing its price with his/her friend Pierre-Louis Black-Desproux. Both took part in the excavations of the Thermes of Dioclétien. To Rome, De Wailly bound friendship with the sculptor Augustin Pajou who was to carve his bust and that of his wife and for which it will build a joint house of his.

In 1767, De Wailly was accepted member of the first class of the royal Académie of architecture and, in 1771, of the Royal Académie of Painting and Sculpture. Catherine II of Russia offered to him the place of president of the Academy of architecture of Saint-Pétersbourg, which he refused.

In 1772, it was named architect of the Château of Fontainebleau, jointly with Marie-Joseph Peyre. The following year, it was authorized to make a long stay with Genoa for redécorer the Spinola palate. It was to return on several occasions to work in Italy.

Noticed by the marquis de Marigny, brother of M {{me}} of Pompadour and managing director of the Building industries of the King, De Wailly worked in the park of sound Château of Menars and managed to obtain, thanks to its support, the ordering of a new theater for the Comédie-Française. In 1779, De Wailly and Peyre built their most famous work thus, the Théâtre of Odéon in Paris (V. will infra).

De Wailly also gave a project for the comic Opéra.

In 1795, it was elected with the Académie of the Art schools - 3rd section (architecture), armchair V. With its death, Jean-François Chalgrin succeeded to him. It became preserving museum of the tables in 1795 and was sent in Holland and Belgium to choose there works of art after the annexation of these countries.

He married Adélaïde Flore Belleville who, after her death, remaria in 1800 with the chemist Antoine François de Fourcroy. He was the brother of the Lexicographe Christmas-François De Wailly (1724 - 1801).

Achievements

In France

Hotel of Argenson (known as also Hotel of the Chancellery of Orleans), close to the Palais Royal in Paris (destroyed in 1923): interior installations carried out for the count d' Argenson (1762 - 1770).
Transformation of the Castle of the Elms to the Elms (Vienna) for the count d' Argenson.
Castle of Montmusard close to Dijon (Coast-with Or) (1765 - 1768): chief of work of the style to Greek in France, unfortunately mainly destroyed as of 1795.
House 57 Street Boétie in Paris, built by Wailly for itself (1776).
House 87 Street of the Seedbed, today street Boétie, for the sculptor Augustin Pajou.
Decoration of the vault of the Holy-Virgin in the church Saint-Sulpice (1774 - 1777).
Temple of Arts of the Castle of Menars (Loir-et-Cher) for the marquis de Marigny. De Wailly also gave a project of Temple of the Rest for the park of Ménars, which was not carried out.
Theater of Odéon (1779 - 1782): Starting from 1767, at the request of the marquis de Marigny, director of the buildings of the King, Marie-Joseph Peyre and Charles De Wailly worked with the project of a new room for the Th3e4atre Fran1cais. The March 26th 1770, a stop of the Council ordered the execution of the project on the ground of the garden of the hotel of the Prince de Condé, of which this one wished to be demolished in order to settle with the Palate-Bourbon. De Wailly was protected from Marigny and Peyre the architect from Prince de Condé, and the friend of Wailly since their stay common to Rome. Their project - several times altered - was however to face the competition of those of the architects of Amusements, Denis-Claude Liégeon and Jean Damun, supported by the troop of the actors, and the Town of Paris, with its architect Pierre-Louis Black-Desproux. Ultimately, and thanks to the protection of Mister, brother of the king, the Peyre project and De Wailly end up definitively carrying it with the autumn 1778. Work began in May 1779. Peyre would be mainly responsible for outsides and De Wailly of the interiors. The February 16th 1782, the actors of the French were installed in their new walls. The theater was inaugurated by the queen Marie-Antoinette the April 9th 1782. * De Wailly had given an overall plan for the construction of the district around the new theater, allotment typical of the urban embellishments of the 18th century. The buildings however were carried out only a long time after the completion of the theater, towards 1794.
Church Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles, street Saint-Denis in Paris: Surévélation of the chorus to create, with the use of the knights of the Holy Sepulchre, a underground Crypt decorated of an original “doric Greek”.
Project of embellishment of the town of Paris (1789): It is about the foreground of overall refitting of the capital, with boring of new ways, meeting of the islands of the City and Saint-Louis, correction of the course of the Seine, etc * Plan of new the Port-Vendres.
Vault of the Resting place, Versailles.

In Belgium

Small theater of the Castle of Seneffe to Seneffe (1779).
Vauxhall (today: Gallic Royal circle), Brussels (1782).
royal Theater of the Park, Brussels (1783).
Renovation project of the Theater of the Currency, Brussels (1785).
royal Castle of Laeken.

In Germany

Reorganization of the center of the town of Cassel.

In Russia

Sheremetev Palate with Kuskovo.

References

External bonds

Note on the castle of Montmusard

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