Antoine-François Peyre

Antoine-François Peyre ( April 5, 1739 - February 7, 1823 ), called Peyre le jeune (Peyre the Younger) or Antoine-François Peyre II was a French architect and interior designer . His brother Marie-Joseph Peyre (1730–1785) is called Peyre the Elder.

Teaching

Peyre taught at the Académie royale d'architecture in Paris. His students included: Charles Percier , Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine , Antoine Vaudoyer and Louis-Pierre Baltard .

Factory selection

The construction of the Hôtel de Salm (Musée Carnavalet, Paris).

Hotel de Soissons

Architecture and decor:

1775–1776: Electoral Palace Mainz , city wing, academy hall
1800–1802: Electoral Palace (Koblenz) , the palace in its current appearance goes back to Peyre.
Construction of the Koblenzer Neustadt from 1786; The draft and general plan date back to 1783. The castle is already shown in a reduced form.
The interior design of the Palais de la Légion d'honneur comes from Antoine-Francois Peyre (redesign).
Maison de notable, called Pavillon d'Angoulême ( Saint-Germain-en-Laye )
Hôtel de Soissons , Pensionnat des Dames de Saint-Thomas
Choisy Castle , Louis XVI. (Late Classicism, le goût étrusques) 1774–1789
Bibliothèque nationale à la Madeleine
Design of an amphitheater for Madrid

literature

Bruno Funk, Wilhelm Jung : The Mainz Town Hall ; Self-published by the Mainz municipal administration, Will & Rothe publishing house and printing company, 1974
West German yearbook for art history: Pierre-Michel d´Ixnard, Antoine-François Peyre and the construction of the Koblenz residential palace. New research, Wallraf-Richartz-Jahrbuch. 1992
Archive for the history of the book: The library of the Académie royale d´architecture in Paris, 1671–1793 , 1992
Antoine-François Peyre: Œuvre d'architecture de AF Peyre , Firmin Didot Paris 1818

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personal data
SURNAME	Peyre, Antoine-François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French architect and interior decorator
DATE OF BIRTH	April 5, 1739
DATE OF DEATH	February 7, 1823