Jean Baptiste Lepaute
Jean Baptiste Lepaute (born February 9, 1727 in Thonne-la-Long , † March 18, 1802 in Paris ) was a French royal watchmaker .
Life
Jean Baptiste Lepaute was born as one of nine children of toolmaker , locksmith and guild master André Lepaute and his wife Elisabeth Doulet.
In 1747 Jean Baptiste came to his older brother Jean André Lepaute in the teaching to Paris. In 1758 he married Marie Thérèse Chardon. The marriage had three children. In 1776 he acquired his master's title and was then employed as a royal watchmaker at the French court of Louis XVI. called.
His brother Jean André withdrew from the business as early as 1774. After this point in time, he remained the sole managing director of Lepaute until his resignation in 1789, when the nephews Pierre Basile Lepaute and Pierre Henry-Lepaute took over the company.
Jean Baptiste Lepaute died at the age of 75 on Rue St. Thomas in Paris.
Services
In the first years he made watches together with his brother, later he worked alone. His clocks are now exhibited in museums all over the world. In Paris, two large clocks are particularly noteworthy: the clock in the Hôtel de Ville (Paris) , delivered in 1780 , which was destroyed in the fire in 1871, and a clock in the Hôtel des Invalides from 1784.
Web links
- Jean-Baptiste Lepaute in Biographies (French, English)
- Lepaute, Jean Baptiste in UhrenLexikon
- Lepaute, Jean Baptiste in Watch-Wiki
- Clocks by Jean Baptiste Lepaute in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Watches by Jean Baptiste Lepaute in the Wallace Collection
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean Baptiste Lepaute in Geneanet.org
- ↑ Fritz von Osterhausen: Callweys lexicon . Munich 1999, ISBN 3-7667-1353-1 ; P. 187
- ^ Dictionnaire des Horlogers Francais ; Tardy; Paris 1975; P. 378f
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lepaute, Jean Baptiste |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French watchmaker |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1727 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thonne-la-Long |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 1802 |
| Place of death | Paris |