Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin (1739 – 21 January 1811) was a French architect, best known for his design for the Arc de Triomphe, Paris. His neoclassic...
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Vernet and Virginia Parker. In 1776, she married the architect Jean-François Chalgrin, who won the Prix de Rome in 1758. Claude Joseph Vernet gave his...
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(1751–1780) by Ange-Jacques Gabriel The Arc de Triomphe (1806–1836) by Jean-François Chalgrin Palais Garnier (1861–1875) by Charles Garnier The Basilica of Sacré-Cœur...
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in the style of Neoclassicism between 1774 and 1784 by architect Jean-François Chalgrin best known for his design of the Arc de Triomphe. It was enlarged...
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Ledoux (1736–1806) and Jean-François Chalgrin (1739–1811); painters included Jacques-Louis David (1748–1825) and his pupil, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres...
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Inspired by neo-Palladian architecture and possibly by drawings by Jean-François Chalgrin, the building, with its square plan and balustrade, rises over three...
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The first exposition was held at the Champ de Mars. The architect Jean-François Chalgrin, who later designed the Arc de Triomphe, undertook the hasty construction...
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namesake, François Blondel, who had occupied the same post in the late 17th century. Born in Rouen, he initially trained under his uncle Jean-François Blondel...
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for his 1833 continuation of the Arc de Triomphe from the plans of Jean Chalgrin. Son of a builder, Huyot attended the École nationale supérieure des...
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Work was suspended after the King's death (1774), and completed by Jean-François Chalgrin for the Count of Provence, brother of King Louis XVI, then known...
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resigned to study, from 1770 to 1774, architecture, partly in Paris with Jean Chalgrin. His opportune assistance to two German nobles in a tavern brawl obtained...
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the Grande Arche de la Défense), the Arc de Triomphe was designed by Jean Chalgrin in 1806; its iconographic programme pits heroically nude French youths...
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Toulouse, Delboy & Armaing, 1866, p. 208. Edouard Pommier, A Chalgrin collaborator, François-Joseph Duret (1729-1816), sculptor and ornamental sculptor...
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complete it successfully. From 1807 to 1808, he worked with architect Jean Chalgrin, managing all the decorations for the Théâtre de l'Impératrice. The...
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nobility. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, architect Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin was commissioned to redesign the Luxembourg Palace in 1800 to...
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XVI period was Église Saint-Philippe-du-Roule (1768–1784) by Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin. It was one of the last churches finished before the Revolution...
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Jacques-Germain Soufflot, and the Église Saint-Philippe-du-Roule (1765–1777) by Jean Chalgrin, which featured an enormous barrel-vaulted nave. Hôtel de la Marine...
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rebuilt the existing organ built by François-Henri Clicquot. The case was designed by Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin and built by Monsieur Joudot. Though...
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leprosarium. It was replaced by a more important church, which was built by Jean Chalgrin between 1774 and 1784. The church of Saint-Philippe du Roule was built...
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Napoleon Bonaparte, the grotto was restored by the neoclassical architect Jean Chalgrin, the architect of the Arc de Triomphe, who replaced the simple water...
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The Ancienne Laiterie de Madame is a dairy built by Jean-François-Thérèse Chalgrin in 1780 for Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, spouse of Louis XVIII of...
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was named Chief Architect for the Palais du Louvre. In 1806, he and Jean Chalgrin were placed in charge of planning the Arc de Triomphe, but the incompatibility...
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Louis XIII. After the Revolution it was refashioned (1799–1805) by Jean Chalgrin into a legislative building and subsequently greatly enlarged and remodeled...
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neighboring religious order of the Carthusian monks. The architect Jean Chalgrin, the architect of the Arc de Triomphe, took on the task of restoring...
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reconstruction projects were carried out by the architects Joseph Bélanger and François Chalgrin. When the Revolution came, the château was declared bien national...
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on March 18, 1799. An 1808 reconstruction of the theater designed by Jean Chalgrin (architect of the Arc de Triomphe) was officially named the Théâtre...
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Narcisse Chaillou (1835–1916) Marguerite Émilie Chalgrin (1760–1794) Charles-Michel-Ange Challe (1718–1778) Jean-Baptiste de Champaigne (1631–1681) Philippe...
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Jean-Pierre Cortot (20 August 1787 – 12 August 1843) was a French neoclassical sculptor. Cortot was born and died in Paris. He was educated at the École...
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in teaching other important architects such as Jean Chalgrin, Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, and Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand. Some of his work only saw...
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neoclassicists on the Commission of Public Buildings, who dominated until 1850. Jean Chalgrin had designed Église Saint-Philippe-du-Roule before the Revolution in...
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