Philibert Le Roy

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Versailles Palace, Marble Courtyard:
View from the east of the three-wing complex (1631–1634) by Philibert Le Roy
Pierre Patel: The Palace of Versailles in 1668

Philibert Le Roy († 1646 ) was a French builder of the classicist Baroque and court architect (French: architecte ordinaire du Roi ) of King Louis XIII.

On April 30, 1631, he signed, together with the Oberbauintendanten (French: superintendant des Bâtiments ) Henri de Fourcy, acting in the name of the king, the contract stating the conditions under which the first, in 1623 in the woods near Versailles by the master mason Nicolas Huau for Ludwig XIII. The hunting pavilion built between 1631 and 1634 was converted into a larger three-winged palace complex.

The three-wing complex of Le Roy formed the core of the Palace of Versailles, which was built under Louis XIV mainly by Louis Le Vau and Jules Hardouin-Mansart . Its typical facades, made of brick and carved stone blocks, still surround the so-called marble courtyard, which faces the city and is located in the center of the Palace of Versailles .

The design executed by Le Roy was illustrated in several books in Great Britain, which was particularly fascinated by the French architectural style in the 17th century. This is also the case in The Art of Fair Building by Pierre Le Muet , published by Robert Pricke in 1670 . This depiction inspired the French architect Claude Comiers to design a design for John Hope of Hopetoun, the father of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun . He then had Hopetoun House built on the basis of this .

Le Roy lived in Paris on Rue Neuve-Saint-Louis on the Marais du Temple. He had been married to Louise since May 9, 1644, she was the widow of Magdelon de La Moussaye.

literature

  • Le Roy, Philibert . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 117 .
  • Emile and Madeleine Houth: Versailles aux 3 visages. Le Val e Galie, le Château des Rois, la cité vivante. Editions Lefebvre, Versailles 1980.
  • Pierre de Nolhac: La Résurrection de Versailles. Souvenirs d'un conservateur, 1887–1920. New edition Editions Perrin, Paris 2002, ISBN 2-262-01983-5 .
  • Alexandre Gady: Le Roy, Philibert (? –1646) . In: Mathieu Da Vinha, Raphaël Masson (ed.): Versailles: Histoire, Dictionnaire et Anthologie (=  Bouquins ). Robert Laffont, Paris 2015, ISBN 978-2-221-11502-2 ( books.google.de - reading sample).

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Further information about Le Roy's work is given by two cost estimates dated April 30, 1631 and July 28, 1631, the latter setting the date of delivery to November 11, 1631, but the gros oeuvre was not completed until the summer of 1633.
  2. ↑ Compare: Pierre de Nolhac: La résurrection de Versailles. Souvenirs d'un conservateur.
  3. ↑ Philhert Le Roy, et ingénieur architecte ordinaire du Roi . In: Artistes parisiens du XVIe et du XVIIe siècles; donations, contrats de mariage, testaments, inventaires,… Impr. nationale, Paris 1915, p. 241 ( Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
  4. ^ Philbert Le Roy: contrat de mariage. FranceArchives, 1644, accessed November 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Le Roy, Philibert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French builder
DATE OF BIRTH 16th century or 17th century
DATE OF DEATH 1646