Jean-François-Therese Chalgrin

Jean-François-Therese Chalgrin is a Architecte French born with Paris in 1739 and died in Paris the January 21st 1811.

Biography

It gained large the Prix of Rome in 1758 and remained with Rome of November 1759 at May 1763, where it accepted the teaching of Servandoni. He enjoys the favor of the duke of Choiseul and the count de Saint-Florentin, Secretary of State at the House of the King and was first architect and intendant of the buildings of the count de Provence (1775).

Jean-François-Therese Chalgrin married in 1776 Marguerite Emilie Vernet, girl of the painter Claude Joseph Vernet. They had a girl, Louise-Josèphe Chalgrin (1777 - 1794). He was in addition freemason.

In 1777, it was charged to restore the frontage of the church Saint-Sulpice, whose pediment had been struck by the lightning: it replaced it by the current balustrade, built monumental the organ case and built moreover the left tower (1777 - 1780).

Its most noticed work was the church Saint-Philippe-of-Rolls, in which he imitated the provision of the Basilique S paléochrétiennes. It gave the plans in of them 1764 and built it between 1774 and 1784.

After the French revolution, Chalgrin was charged to transform the Palais of Luxembourg to install the Directoire there. He was elected in 1799 with the Académie of the Art schools - 3rd section (architecture), with the armchair V (previously occupied by Charles De Wailly).

In 1806, Napoleon I {{er}} charged it with building a monument with the glory of the Large army. The Triumphal arch of the Star, essentially, was conceived by Chalgrin, but this one died shortly after the effective beginning of construction.

It is characterized by the imposing one from the designs more than by the precision of the details.

Principal achievements

Hotel of Saint-Florentin cheese, known as also of Talleyrand, built for the count de Saint-Florentin, with the north-eastern angle of the Place of the Harmony to Paris, 1767 - 1769.
Hotel of Miss de Luzy, Street Férou in Paris, 1767 - 1770.
Enlarging of the Collège de France, 1774 - 1780.
Transformation of the apartment building built by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux for Madam of Barry and bought by the count of Provence with Versailles, 1775.
Restoration of the frontage and construction of the Northern tower of the church Saint-Sulpice, 1777 - 1780.
Go of hunting of the Pheasantry, Étiolles, the Essonne, for the count of Provence, 1778.
Vault of the Holy Spirit, Street Lhomond, Paris, 1778.
House of music of the countess of Provence, 111 avenue de Paris with Versailles, 1780.
Église Saint-Philippe-of-Rolls to Paris, 1784.
House and garden with English in the Balbi park in Versailles, 1785, destroyed in 1798.
Transformations with the Palate of Luxembourg, 1799 - 1805: remain in particular of these installations the main staircase and the living room of the Messengers of State.
Triumphal arch of the Star, 1806 - 1811.
Restoration of the Theater of Odéon, 1807.

External bonds

Card on the basis Structurae

Random links: