François Dominique Barreau of Chefdeville is a French architect born in 1725 and died on June 29th 1765.
Biography
Resulting from a good Parisian middle-class family, Bareau de Chefdeville studied architecture under the direction of Germain Boffrand and gained Large the Prix of Rome to the contest of 1749 with “a temple of peace, insulated, in the taste of the ancient temples”.It remained in Rome of October 1751 at August 1753 at the same time as Pierre-Louis Black-Desproux, Pierre-Louis Helin, Marie-Joseph Peyre and Charles De Wailly. He visited Naples with the sculptor Augustin Pajou and the remainder of the Italy with the Silvestre painter the son.
Returned in Paris, it became acquainted with Ange Laurent Lalive de Jully (1725-1779), introducer of the ambassadors and close to M {{me}} of Pompadour, who wanted, by the return to the shapes inspired of the Antique, to join again with the Great style of the reign of Louis XIV, in reaction against the style rubble. Towards 1754, it arranged for Lalive its cabinet of the street of Ménars, whose pieces of furniture were carried out by Jean-François Oeben. This decoration, which launched the fashion of the style to Greek the , had a considerable influence on the evolution of the taste.
Bar of Chefdeville took part in various public contests, of which that organized for the rebuilding of the Mint. In September 1764, he was prize winner of the contest organized by Louis V Joseph de Bourbon-Cop for the enlarging of the Palate-Bourbon and constituted its agency, which carried out more than one hundred of working drawings, preserved at the Musée Cop with Chantilly and at the 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the fine arts (funds Soufaché).
For Charles-Robert Boutin, intendant of Guyenne to Bordeaux, it decorated his Parisian house, with the angle of the Rue of the Temple and the Rue Portefoin. For the madness that Boutin had with his/her brother, Simon Boutin, treasurer of the Navy, Rue Saint-Lazare, it gave the plans of the Pavillon of the Gladiator , Atrium lit by a Lanterneau and sheltering a copy of the sculpture of Agasias d' Éphèse by Laurent Guyard. It also gave drawings for the rebuilding of the intendance of Bordeaux after a fire in 1756 and corrected certain projects of Bordeaux for the Dauphine place and the suburb of Chartrons.
It gave plans for the Saint Nicolas's Day church of Nérac (current Département of Lot-et-Garonne), retaining a party in the shape of Latin cross with a gate decorated with a French Ionic order with colossal pilasters. Construction was directed on the spot by a Parisian architect of the name of Sauvageot (1758-1785).
Bar of Chefdeville died prematurely in forty years and was replaced with the Palate-Bourbon by Antoine Matthieu Carpentier and in Bordeaux by Oudot de MacLaurin.
References
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- Card on the basis Structurae
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