Pierre-Adrien Pâris
Pierre-Adrien Pâris (* 1745 in Besançon ; † August 1, 1819 ) was a French painter and architect .
Life
From 1760 he studied architecture in Paris. He traveled to Italy, where he visited Rome , Pompeii , Herculaneum and Paestum and created paintings there. In 1774 he returned to France. In 1775 Trouard commissioned him to decorate the interior of the Hôtel d'Aumont .
After the death of Charles-Michel-Ange Challe , he was named Dessinateur du Cabinet du Roi by King Louis XVI in 1778 . appointed. In 1780 he became a member of the Académie royale d'architecture . In other assignments he was responsible for the interior decoration of the Paris Opera . From 1784 to 1790 he was commissioned as an architect to build the town hall in Neuchâtel . In 1785 he built the Hôtel Depont des Granges in La Rochelle .
From 1787 he worked on the interior design of the Élysée Palace for Bathilde d'Orléans according to the specifications of Étienne-Louis Boullée . From 1787 to 1790 he worked at the Orléans Cathedral . With the beginning of the French Revolution he withdrew from Paris due to his professional proximity to the king and lived in Colmoulins , Le Havre .
In 1806 he went to Italy, where he briefly succeeded Joseph-Benoît Suvée as director of the Académie de France à Rome and supervised the work on the Colosseum . He arranged the acquisition of antiques from the Borghese , which he had brought to Paris. He was appointed a member of the Académie Royale . After Napoleon's defeat and the restoration of the Bourbon royal family, he returned to Paris in 1817. In the last two years of his life he took care of the cataloging of his paintings and collections, which he left in his native city of Besançon .
Web links
- Pierre-Adrien Pâris in the J. Paul Getty Museum
- Exhibition: Le cabinet Pierre-Adrien Pâris in the Musée des beaux-arts et d'archéologie de Besançon
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pâris, Pierre-Adrien |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French painter and architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1745 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Besançon |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1819 |