Mathurin Cherpitel

Mathurin Cherpitel is a French architect born in Paris in 1736 and died in Paris in 1809.

Biography

Wire of a Parisian Master-carpenter installed Street of Burgundy, Mathurin Cherpitel followed the teaching of Jacques François Blondel and spent three years as draftsman in the agency of Angel-Jacques Gabriel before gaining the First Large Prix of Rome to the contest of 1758. With Rome, Cherpitel carried out of the statements of buildings as of the picturesque drawings of which much was undoubtedly allotted to his/her friend Hubert Robert.

Returned in Paris, it had great difficulties in bore. His/her father, employed on several building sites in the Saint-Germain suburb, managed to make him obtain some orders. Towards 1765, it was employed in the agency of François Dominique Barreau of Chefdeville to the Palate-Bourbon. For the Duke of Harcourt, it made drawings for a rebuilding of the hotel of Locmaria, street of the University. In 1766, it took part in the contest gained by Claude Nicolas Ledoux for the rebuilding of the hotel of Uzès, Rue Montmartre. In 1768, it obtained finally its first order: the general Lieutenant of police force, Antoine de Sartine, charged it with building the building of the Office of the nurses, Rue of Gramont.

Cherpitel then gave projects for the palate of prince Esthérazy to Vienna, for Buckingham Palace with London and for the Prime Minister of Parma. It also published, at the widow Chéreau, a Recueil of trophies . Towards 1770, he became a known and required architect. It built Rue of Grenelle the hotel of Châtelet, its most remarkable realization, the hotel of Damas d' Antigny, the hotel of Rochechouart. With the roadway of Antin, it builds for Jacques Necker a vast hotel rented then in Mirepoix then in Barentin. In the Saint-Honore suburb, it arranged two contiguous hotels for Sabran and the count d' Andlau.

In the island of the City, it almost entirely rebuilt the church St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre (demolished shortly after its completion). It succeeded Chalgrin with the church Saint-Pierre-of-Large-Stone. Architect of the royal Stewardships, it worked in évêchés of Agen, of Chartres, Orleans and Laon. He built several castles in province of which those of Varennes and Éverly.

Member of the royal Academy of architecture since 1776, Cherpitel was assistant professor with the Academy and professor with the École of the Art schools under the Consulat.

Principal achievements

Hotel of Châtelet , 127 Street of Grenelle, Paris, 1770 - 1776
Hotel of Damas d' Antigny , 125 rue de Grenelle, Paris
Hotel of Rochechouart , 110 rue de Grenelle, Paris, 1776
Church Saint-Pierre-of-Large-Stone, Paris
St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre Church of the City, Paris, 1772 - 1791 (destroyed in 1791)
Hotel Necker , Fitted of Antin
Hotel of Sabran , 43 Street of the Suburb-Saint-Honore, Paris
Hotel of Andlau , 45 rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, Paris
Large living room of the Hotel of Mortemart , Street Saint-Guillaume, Paris, 1778
Castle for the marquis de Ségur, close to Bordeaux
Castle for the Cotin banker, close to Bordeaux
Castle of Varennes
Castle of Everly close to the Bray-on-Seine (Seine-et-Marne), for the duke of Mortemart, 1785 - 1789 (mainly destroyed; the buildings of the stables and handing-over remain)

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