Jacques Denis Antoine

Jacques Denis Antoine is a Architecte French born with Paris the August 6th 1733 and died in Paris the August 24th 1801.

Biography

Wire of a carpenter, Jacques Denis Antoine studied in an architect whose name is not known, and began a career of manufacturer, before buying in 1760 an office of contractor-sworn. But it continued to study the French architects of formerly, and presented, starting from 1763, of the projects of architecture (gate for the church Saint-Nicolas-of-Hanging-post, project for the Comédie-Française…).

In 1765, Antoine was preferred with the architects Etienne-Louis Boullée and François Dominique Barreau of Chefdeville for the construction of new the mint which was to be built on current the Place of the Harmony, behind of the Western colonnade of Gabriel. But, ultimately, it was decided in 1767 to carry out the project on the quays of the Seine, with the site of old the Hôtel of Conti. The first stone was posed by the abbot Terray on April 30th 1771. The frontage on the quay was completed in 1773 and the carcass work heavy castings, as well as the essence of the decoration, in 1775. This building, very admired, was worth in Antoine to enter in 1776 to the royal Académie of architecture. Antoine, architect of the mint, profited from the concession of an apartment on the second floor, the angle of the street Guénégaud and Conti quay, where he lived until his death.

With the autumn 1777, it went on a journey in Italy, visiting the Piedmont, the Lombardy and Venice in company of a Lyons friend named Dumatz. It was joined by his friend the architect Charles De Wailly.

Like Town planner, Jacques Denis Antoine is the author of several projects of modernization of Paris. For the island of the City, he imagined a square and peristyles in front of the Notre-Dame, a church of the imitated Madeleine of the the Pantheon d' Agrippa, and of new frontages for the Dauphine Place pointing out those of the mint. It also gave a project of fastening of the Palais of Louvre to the Palais of Tileries.

It built many hospital buildings: the hospital of Charity in Paris, where it used for the first time the “antiquated order” of Paestum, the old people's home of Rochefoucauld in Paris, others still with Charenton, Niort and Senlis. It carried out also work with the Law courts, succeeded Claude-Nicolas Ledoux in 1787 with the work management to the barriers of Paris. Its reputation extended beyond the borders, and he saw himself entrusting constructions in England, Suisse and Spain.

Member of the Academy of the Art schools in 1799, friend of Jacques-Germain Soufflot, it did not mix with the political events during the Révolution, but nevertheless spent some time to the Prison of the Force in December 1793, shown to have dug an underground between the mint and the Seine to allow English agents to steal part of the gold reserves of France. But it could be cleared of these whimsical charges and, after Thermidor 9, was withdrawn in its property of Small Cîteaux in Touraine.

Jacques Denis Antoine was the brother of the sculptor Jean Denis Antoine (1735-1802). His/her niece married François Soufflot says “the Romain”.

Principal achievements

Rebuilding partial of the Hotel of Maillebois , 102 Street of Grenelle, Paris, towards 1771.
Mint, Quay Conti, Paris, 1771 - 1775.
Hotel Pike of Saint-Prest (also known as Hotel of Fleury ), 28 Street of the Holy Father, Paris, 1772, for Jacques Frécot de Lanty, adviser with the Parliament of Paris.
Castle of Herces, Berchères-on-Vesgre, Eure-et-Loir, 1772, for Charles Robert Boutin, Intendant of finances.
Hotel of Jaucourt , 45 Street of Game preserve, Paris, 1775 - 1777.
Law courts of Paris, restoration after the fire of 1776: large staircase on the right of the court of May, grand' room of lawyers, files.
Castle of the Bush, Évreux, 1780.
Vault of the Visitation, Nancy (in the current Henri-Poincaré college), 1785.
Mint, Bern (Swiss), 1789.
Common of the castle of Holy-Genevieve-of-Wood, the Essonne, for Louis Benign François Berthier de Sauvigny, intendant of the general information of Paris.
Castle of Rosay: interior installations, factories of the park for Jacques Louis de Brétignières.
Castle of Mussy-l' Bishop, close to Langres, for Mgr César Guillaume of the Alfalfa.
Hospital of Charity, Street of the Holy Father, Paris (destroyed).
Old people's home of Rochefoucauld, 15 Which occurred of the General Leclerc, Paris: discussed attribution; one also evokes the intervention of Jean-Jacques Huvé and Charles-François Viel.
Investment property (built for the order of the Théatins) 229 to 335 Street Saint-Honore, Paris.
Town hall of Cambric.
Staircase of the Palate of Alba, Madrid (Spain).

References

External bonds

Card on the basis '' Structurae ''

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