Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur

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Gabriel- Hippolyte Destailleur (born September 27, 1822 in Paris; † November 17, 1893 there ), also known as Hippolyte-Alexandre Destailleur (full baptismal name Hippolyte Alexandre Gabriel Walter), was an internationally recognized French architect , restorer , interior designer and collector who is to be assigned to historicism .

life and career

Hippolyte Destailleur: Barèges in the 19th century (Bibliothèque Nationale de France)

Destailleur worked in the second half of the 19th century on behalf of influential personalities in France, England, Austria and Germany.

Gabriel-Hippolyte was the son of Percier and Fontaine trained architect François-Hippolyte Destailleur (1787-1852) and brother of Hélène de Bourge (* 1812), Emma Leroux de Lincy and Henri-Prosper-Alfred Destailleur, all three as painters worked.

From 1842 he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris with Achille Leclère . From the following year he worked in his father's studio, which he took over in 1853 after his death. Among other things, he restored Vaux-le-Vicomte Castle .

His son Walter-André Destailleur also became an architect.

architecture

Residential and commercial buildings:

• 1856: Hôtel d'Haussonville in Paris, 41, Rue Saint-Dominique
• 1856–1861: Restoration of the castle in Mouchy-le-Chatel, Oise department
• 1859–1860: Hôtel Biron in Paris, 77, rue de Varenne
• 1865–1873: Restoration of the Hôtels Pourtalès in Paris, 7, rue Tronchet
• 1866: Monsieur Cramail's house in Paris, 176, boulevard Haussmann
• 1866–1867: Hôtel de Béhague in Paris, 123, rue Saint-Dominique
• 1867–1874: Hôtel de Mouchy in Paris, boulevard de Courcelles
• 1868: Hôtel de Noailles in Paris, 60, boulevard de La Tour-Maubourg
• 1870–1874: Reconstruction and redesign of the interior of Schloss Pleß for Prince Hans Heinrich XI. von Pleß in Pleß, Upper Silesia (today Pszczyna, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland)
• 1871–1878: Palais Pless for Prince Hans Heinrich XI. von Pleß in Berlin-Mitte , Wilhelmstrasse 78 (canceled around 1910)
• 1872: Hôtel de Béhague in Paris, 21, avenue Bosquet
• 1874: Waddesdon Manor for Baron Ferdinand de Rothschild in Waddesdon, Buckinghamshire , England
• undated: Restoration of Courances Castle for the banker Baron Samuel von Haber in Courances, Essonne department (von Haber bought the domain in 1872, the work was carried out before that of Vaux-le-Vicomte)
• 1875: Restoration of Vaux-le-Vicomte Castle for Alfred Sommier in Vaux-le-Vicomte , Seine-et-Marne department
• 1876–1884 Palais for Baron Albert von Rothschild in Vienna, 4th district of Wieden, Prinz-Eugen-Straße 20 (demolished in 1960)
• 1877: Hôtel for Monsieur Cramail in Paris, 60, boulevard de la Tour-Maubourg

Hôtel Cahen d'Anvers in Paris

• 1880: Hôtel Cahen d'Anvers in Paris, rue de Bassano
• 1880: Castle for the Duke of Massa in Franconville , Département Val-d'Oise (based on the model of Castle Maisons-Laffitte by F. Mansart)
• 1881–1886: Farnborough Hill Manor for the French ex-Empress Eugénie in Farnborough , Hampshire , England
• 1887–1893: Château de la Triboulette for Baron Eugène Roger in Vouzeron , Cher département
• 1893–1907: Château Trévarez for James de Kerjégu in Saint-Goazec (executed by Walter-André Destailleur)
• undated: Restoration of Maintenon Castle in Maintenon, Eure-et-Loir department

public buildings:

• 1873: Grandstands of the Auteuil racecourse , Hauts-de-Seine department
• 1878–1881: Chapelle des Catéchismes of the Basilica Sainte-Clotilde in Paris

not executed drafts:

• 1883: Design for a large palace outside Berlin for Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia

Fonts

• Notices sur quelques artistes francais, architectes, dessinateurs, graveurs du XVIe au XVIIIe siecl . Rapilly, Paris 1863
• Recueil d'estampes relatives à l'ornementation des appartements, aux XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIe siècles published under the direction and with an explanatory text by H. Destailleur. Rapilly, Paris 1863
• Notice historique . In: Mathurin Josse: La Fidelle ouverture de l'art du serrurier . A. Lévy, Paris 1874

Hippolyte Destailleur was also editor of:

• Les Plus excellents bastiments de France, par J.-A. Du Cerceau ., New edition, supplemented by Du Cerceau's unpublished plans. A. Lévy, Paris 1868-1870

literature

• Anne Dugast, Isabelle Parizet: Dictionnaire par noms d'architectes des constructions élevées à Paris aux XIXe et XXe siècles . Paris 1991
• Inventaire de la collection des dessins sur Paris formée par MHDestailleur et acquise par la Bibliothèque Nationale . Paris 1891
• Bibliothèque nationale. Department des estampes: Inventaire de la Collection de dessins sur les départements de la France . Paris 1897
• Michael Hall: Waddesdon Manor. The Heritage of a Rothschild House . Harry N. Abrams Publishers, New York 2002

Web links

Commons : Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Gabriel-Hippolyte Destailleur. In: Architects Lexicon Vienna 1770–1945. Published by the Architekturzentrum Wien . Vienna 2007.
• Entry. Biographical artist lexicon
• Chateau Trévarez in Brittany