Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (born September 10, 1762 in Pontoise , † October 13, 1853 in Paris ) was a French architect of the Empire style , a form of classicism that emerged under Napoléon . He worked closely with his fellow student Charles Percier . His teachers were Antoine-François Peyre and Professor J.-D. Le Roy (1724-1803).
In 1842 he was accepted into the Prussian order Pour le Mérite for science and the arts . A street in the northwest of the 9th arrondissement of Paris was named after Fontaine , the rue Pierre Fontaine . It is the extension of rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette to place blanche .
Buildings (selection)
- 1806-08 Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (together with Charles Percier)
- 1829–31 Galerie d'Orléans , Paris
Publications
Together Percier and Fontaine published:
- 1798 Palais, maisons et autres édifices modern dessinés à Rome
- 1809 Choix des plus célèbres maisons de plaisance de Rome et de ses environs
- 1811 Description of the cérémonies et des fêtes qui ont eu lieu pour le mariage de Napoléon Ier avec l'archiduchesse Marie-Louise
- 1812 Recueil de décoration intérieure concernant tout ce qui rapporte à l'ameublement
- 1833 Résidences des souverains de France, d'Allemagne, de Russie, etc.
Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine kept a journal between 1799 and 1853. It was published in 1987 in Paris by the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts de Paris and the Institut français d'architecture . Fontaine had a literary talent.
Famous students
Here are some of Charles Percier's students whom Fontaine taught perspective :
- François Debret (1777-1850)
- Jacques-Marie Huvé (1783-1852)
- Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti (1791-1853)
- Achille Leclerc (1785-1853)
- Augustin Caristie (1783–1862)
- Louis-Hippolyte Lebas (1782–1867)
- Paul Letarouilly
- Jakob Ignaz Hittorff (1792–1867)
literature
- Sabine Frommel, Jean-Philippe Garric and Elisabeth Kieven (eds.): Charles Percier e Pierre Fontaine dal soggiorno romano alla trasformazione di Parigi , Studi della Bibliotheca Hertziana vol. 9, Silvana Editoriale, Cinisello Balsamo / Milan 2014, ISBN 9788836629961 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Orden Pour le Mérite for sciences and arts (ed.): The members of the order . tape 1: 1842-1881 . Gebr. Mann Verlag, Berlin 1975, ISBN 3-7861-6189-5 ( orden-pourlemerite.de [PDF; accessed on September 18, 2011]).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fontaine, Pierre-François-Léonard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fontaine, Pierre François Léonard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French architect |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1762 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pontoise |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 13, 1853 |
| Place of death | Paris |