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In his role as Surintendant des Bâtiments Ratabon ordered the demolition of the [[Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon]] in 1660, resulting in the eviction of the [[troupe of Molière]] from the theatre there and their transfer to the disused and run-down [[Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)|theatre of the Palais-Royal]].<ref name=Vitu/> |
In his role as Surintendant des Bâtiments Ratabon ordered the demolition of the [[Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon]] in 1660, resulting in the eviction of the [[troupe of Molière]] from the theatre there and their transfer to the disused and run-down [[Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré)|theatre of the Palais-Royal]].<ref name=Vitu/> |
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Ratabon married Marie Sanguin, daughter of Nicolas Sanguin, an equerry, sieur de Pierrelaye, by a contract of 1 March 1647. The king, his mother [[Anne d'Autriche]], and Cardinal Mazarin were all present and signed the contract. The couple had several children of which three survived into adulthood:<ref name=Vitu/> |
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* Louis de Ratabon (died September 1693), seigneur de Trememont, Gentleman of the Chambre du Roi, Governor of Fécamp, and Special Envoy for the King to Liège , Venice and other foreign places. |
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* Martin de Ratabon (1654–1728), doctor at the Sorbonne |
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* Marie-Marguerite de Ratabon (born 1652) |
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Revision as of 22:28, 24 December 2019
Antoine [de] Ratabon (1617 – 12 March 1670) was a French aristocrat, who was an arts and architecture administrator during the reign of Louis XIV.[2] He was Director of the Académie de Peinture et de Sculpture from 1655 to 1670[3] and Surintendant des Bâtiments (Superintendant of Buildings) from 1656 to 1664.[4]
Early life and career
Ratabon was born in Montpellier, the son of Jean de Ratabon, an equerry, and Catherine Pache from Servien, near Mende. He became Maître d'Hôtel Ordinaire of King Louis XIV, Trésorier Général de France at Montpellier, and Intendant des Gabelles of Languedoc.[2]
Bâtiments du Roi
In Paris he became First Assistant to François Sublet de Noyers, who was the Surintendant des Bâtiments under Cardinal Richelieu,[2] and continued in this role under Le Camus, who succeeded Sublet de Noyers as Surintendant after the latter's dismissal under Cardinal Mazarin in 1643. Ratabon succeeded Le Camus in 1656. Ratabon relinquished the post to Jean-Baptiste Colbert on 1 January 1664.[5]
In his role as Surintendant des Bâtiments Ratabon ordered the demolition of the Hôtel du Petit-Bourbon in 1660, resulting in the eviction of the troupe of Molière from the theatre there and their transfer to the disused and run-down theatre of the Palais-Royal.[2]
Personal life
Ratabon married Marie Sanguin, daughter of Nicolas Sanguin, an equerry, sieur de Pierrelaye, by a contract of 1 March 1647. The king, his mother Anne d'Autriche, and Cardinal Mazarin were all present and signed the contract. The couple had several children of which three survived into adulthood:[2]
- Louis de Ratabon (died September 1693), seigneur de Trememont, Gentleman of the Chambre du Roi, Governor of Fécamp, and Special Envoy for the King to Liège , Venice and other foreign places.
- Martin de Ratabon (1654–1728), doctor at the Sorbonne
- Marie-Marguerite de Ratabon (born 1652)
Notes
- ^ The subject of this portrait was identified as Louis Le Vau in 1955 by Albert Laprade, who recognized the plan as that of the southwest corner of the old Louvre, that is the Bathing Apartment of the Queen Mother Anne d'Autriche, remodeled by Le Vau in the summer of 1661, and the building illustrated in the background as the pavilion at the north end of the Louvre's Petite Galerie (see Galerie d'Apollon), constructed after the fire of 1 February 1661 (see also Laprade 1960, chapter 3, plate 1).
Christophe Hardouin disputed Laprade's attribution in an unpublished thesis for the University of Paris and identified the painting as Pierre Rabon's presentation piece before the Academy on 3 July 1660, which portrayed Antoine de Ratabon, Surintendant des Bâtiments (see Thierry Bajou; also Hilary Ballon 1999, p. 201, note 8, who was unable to examine the thesis but cites Bajou). Bajou comments that the "building plan and the facade therefore correspond to projects and not to completed buildings. It is unfortunately, just as impossible to confirm this identification, by comparing the sitter's features with those in other painted, sculpted or engraved portraits." - ^ a b c d e Vitu 1880, pp. 151–153.
- ^ Michel 2018, p. 21; Williams 2015, p. 45.
- ^ Williams 2015, p. 23.
- ^ Gordan 1996, p. 134.
Bibliography
- Bajou, Thierry (1998). La peinture à Versailles : XVIIe siècle. [English edition: Paintings at Versailles: XVIIth Century, translated by Elizabeth Wiles-Portier, p. 76.] Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux. ISBN 9782283017647. ISBN 9782283017654 (English edition).
- Ballon, Hilary (1999). Louis Le Vau: Mazarin's Collège, Colbert's Revenge. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691048956.
- Gordan, Alden R. (1996). "Maison du Roi, II. Bâtiments du Roi", vol. 20, pp. 132–137, in The Dictionary of Art, 34 volumes, edited by Jane Turner. New York: Grove. ISBN 9781884446009.
- Hardouin, Christophe (1994). "La Collection de portraits de l'Académie royale de Peinture et de Sculpture: Peintures entrées sous le règne de Louis XIV (1648–1715", Mémoire de D.E.A., Université de Paris IV, 1994, pp. 164–166.
- Laprade, Albert (1955). "Portraits des premiers architectes de Versailles", Revue des Arts, March 1955, pp. 21–24. ISSN 0482-7872
- Laprade, Albert (1960). François d'Orbay: Architecte de Louis XIV. Paris: Éditions Vincent, Fréal. OCLC 562063179, 780531730, 1096782.
- Michel, Christian (2018). The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture: The Birth of the French School, 1648–1793, translated from French by Chris Miller. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute. ISBN 9781606065358.
- Vitu, Auguste-Charles-Joseph (1880). La Maison mortuaire de Molière d'apres des Documents inédits, avec Plans et Dessins. Paris: Alphonse Lemerre. Copy at HathiTrust.
- Williams, Hannah (2015). Académie Royale: A History in Portraits. Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate. ISBN 9781409457428.