Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps

Jean-Pierre Barillet , after Barillet-Deschamps marriage(born June 7, 1824 in Saint-Antoine-du-Rocher , † September 12, 1873 in Vichy ), was a French gardener and landscape architect . He designed a large number of gardens and parks, for example in Paris , Turin and Cairo .

Life

Jean-Pierre Barillet was the son of a farmer . As a teenager he worked as a farm laborer on his father's farm. Around 1845 he began his professional career as a nursery supervisor in the agricultural penal colony of Mettray . He was able to attend horticultural events in the Jardin des Plantes (Paris). He married Marie Deschamps . Around 1850 he founded a tree nursery in Bordeaux , which became successful through industrial plant cultivation and an assortment geared to contemporary tastes.

Barillet's rise began with the reshaping of Paris during the Second Empire . Georges-Eugène Haussmann and Jean-Charles Alphand commissioned him to redesign the Bois de Boulogne . Other important design tasks followed. In July 1859 he was commissioned to build the Jardin d'Acclimatation , after which Barillet was one of the most famous garden architects in France. In 1869 he gave up his post as head gardener in Paris and devoted himself to commissions from abroad, including in Vienna and Turin. He died of a lung disease while returning from Constantinople . Barillet's grave is in the Père-Lachaise cemetery (Div. 69) in Paris.

Barillet received several awards, including the French Order of the Legion of Honor (1865).

Works

• Longchamp , conservatory made of large greenhouses (1853)
• Bois de Boulogne , Paris (1854–1860)
• Jardins des Champs-Elysées , Paris (1859–1860)
• Bois de Vincennes , Paris (1860–1865)
• Parc Monceau , Paris, redesign of the garden by Louis Carmontelle (1861)
• Parc des Buttes-Chaumont , Paris (1864–1867)
• Parc Montsouris , Paris (1865–1878)
• Gardens of the 1867 World's Fair , Paris
• about twenty public places in Paris
• Park van Laken , Brussels, extension and greenhouses (around 1875)
• Park am Prater , Vienna, redesign (1869)
• Piazza Carlo Felice and Parco del Valentino , Turin (around 1864)
• Ezbékieh Park , Cairo (1870)

In 1869, Barillet had his book Les pensées, histoire, culture, multiplication, emploi printed with 25 color lithographs in an edition of 200 copies.

literature

• St. Le Tourneur: Barillet (Jean-Pierre) . In: Dictionnaire de biographie française , edited by M. Prevost and Roman d'Amat. Volume 5. Letouzey et ané , Paris, 1951, column 465.
• Bernard Marray: Barillet , called Barillet-Deschamps . In: General Artist Lexicon. The visual artists of all times and peoples. Volume 7. Saur, Munich, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-598-22747-7 , pp. 64-65.
• Luisa Limido: The squares created by Jean Pierre Barillet-Deschamps in Turin . In: Journal of garden history , Volume 17, 1997, pp. 122-139.
• Luisa Limido: Jean-Pierre Barillet-Deschamps 1824–1873 . In: Créateurs de jardins et de paysages en France de la Renaissance au XXIe siècle , edited by Michel Racine . Volume 2. Actes Sud , Arles 2002, ISBN 2-7427-3721-9 , pp. 43-46.
• Denis Lambin: Barillet-Deschamps . In: The Oxford companion to gardens , edited by Patrick Goode, Michael Lancaster . Oxford, New York 2001, ISBN 0-19-860440-8 , p. 38.

Web links

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