Stained glass Le Vieil
The stained glass Le Vieil existed since the 17th century in Rouen and from an existing several generations of family dynasty developed glass painters . At the end of the 17th century the family came to Paris , where lead glass windows were made until 1830 .
Guillaume Le Vieil (* 1676 - October 21, 1731)
Guillaume Le Vieil joined François Gaillard's workshop in Paris in 1696 to study. He then married Henriette Anne Favier († 1745), the daughter of the glass painter Pierre Favier, with whom he was working at the time. This laid the foundation for many years of continuous work. The following work was carried out in his workshop: Windows for the Church of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux (Paris, 4th arrondissement ), for Jules Hardouin-Mansart he worked in the Invalides and in the chapel of the Palace of Versailles . For the churches of St Roch , Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet (Paris, 5th arrondissement ) and St-Étienne-du-Mont , he made stained glass windows, of which only one window ( Education of Mary ) has survived in the latter church .
His sons Pierre, Nicolas Guillaume and Jean also became glass painters.
Pierre Le Vieil (* 1708; February 23 † 1772)
The eldest son of Guillaume Le Vieil wrote a long-respected book on stained glass, L'art de la peinture sur verre et de la vitrerie , which appeared after his death in 1774.
He bequeathed his fortune to his nephew Nicolas, also a glass painter, and Pierre Nicolas, the sons of his brother Nicolas Guillaume († 1753).
Jean Le Vieil (1711 - March 18, 1796)
Jean Le Vieil was another son of Guillaume Le Vieil and worked in his own workshop on Rue du Bac . He restored windows in the Saint-Pierre church in Dreux . His sons Louis, Jean Pierre and Jean Nicolas Guillaume continued the family tradition of stained glass.
Louis Le Vieil
Louis Le Vieil, the eldest son of Jean Le Vieil, received his father's workshop when he married on January 1, 1777. His son later became a watchmaker in Paris.
Jean Pierre Le Vieil
Jean Pierre Le Vieil, also a son of Jean Le Vieil, bought his brother Louis' workshop in 1796, who originally got it from his father.
Jean Nicolas Guillaume Le Vieil (1748--14 December 1825)
For a long time he owned a glass painting workshop on the Île de la Cité in Paris. None of his six children continued the family tradition.
Jean Pierre Le Vieil († April 19, 1808)
The long tradition of stained glass in the Le Vieil family ended with Jean Pierre. He wrote two books: Essai sur la peinture en mosaique, suivie d'une dissertation sur la pierre spéculaire des anciens (published 1768) and Traité historique et pratique sur la peinture sur verre (year of publication unknown).
literature
- Elisabeth Pillet: Le vitrail à Paris au XIXe siècle. Entretenir, conserver, restaurer , ( Corpus Vitrearum France - Études IX) Presses Universitaires de Rennes, Rennes 2010, ISBN 978-2-7535-0945-0 , p. 24ff.