Jean-Baptiste Leroux

Jean-Baptiste Leroux is a Architecte French born towards 1677 and died in 1746.

Biography

Raise François d' Orbay. Member of the royal Academy of architecture in 1720, it was with the head of one of the most important cabinets of architecture of Paris, specialized in the private mansions and “upper middle classes or country cottages” for an aristocratic rich person customers. He generally worked with the famous ornementist Nicolas Pineau.

Principal works

Fradet House, Street Holy-Anne, 1714.
Hotel of Greenhouse of Rieux, Place Saint-Michel (destroyed).
Houses of Anne Pinon, Street Saint-Anthony and street Culture-Holy-Catherine.
Hotel of Avaray, 85 Street of Grenelle, 1720.
Middle-class Hotel of Boynes (known as also of Mondragon ), 3 Street of Antin, 1725-1729.
Gallery of the hotel of Villars, 116 Street of Grenelle, 1730-1732 (destroyed): According to A. of Champeaux: “The Russet-red one had been charged to lay out a long of soixante-douze feet and high gallery with twenty-four extending on the garden. It was its most important work and the gallery passed to be most beautiful of Paris”.
Enlarging of the hotel of Roquelaure, 246 Boulevard Saint-Germain, 1733 and year following.
Transformation of the hotel of Stamps, 61 Street of Game preserve, 1736.
Hotel of Rohan-Chub, 63 Street of Game preserve, v. 1736 (destroyed).
Enlarging of the hotel of Villeroy, 78 Street of Game preserve.
Hotel of Chantereine, street Holy-Anne, 1743.
Work with the hotel of Mosson, Street Saint-Dominique.
Work with the hotel of Varangeville, Street Saint-Dominique (today 217 Boulevard Saint-Germain).
Hotel of Montbazon, street of the University (destroyed).
Hotel of the marquis de Gamaches, 5 street of the University.
Transformation of the hotel of the Turn-Maubourg, 59 Street of Game preserve (destroyed).
Decoration of the hotel of Houses, 51 Street of Game preserve (destroyed).
Decoration of the hotel of Brissac, 116 Street of Grenelle.

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