Jean-François Blondel (1683 – 9 October 1756) was a French architect.
Biography
editBorn in Rouen, Blondel was admitted in the Académie d'architecture in 1728.[1]
He was the master[2] and uncle of Jacques-François. He also had another nephew as a student, Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de la Mothe, whom he took in his agency on his return from Rome.
Main realisations
edit- Maison Mallet, Geneva, 1724.[3]
- Maison de Saussure, Creux de Genthod, 1724-1730.[4]
- Manufacture des tabacs de Morlaix, 1736-1740
- Palais des Consuls in Rouen, 1741-1747 (destroyed in 1944)
- Hôtel des gardes du Roi, Versailles, 1750-1754
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Maison de Saussure, Creux de Genthod -
Manufacture des tabacs de Morlaix
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References
edit- ^ de Pénanrun, Roux & Delaire 1907, p. 130
- ^ According to his friend, architect Franque. Michel Gallet, Universalis.fr. "Jacques-François Blondel". Retrieved 20 April 2010.
- ^ "Dossier thématique "La maison Mallet"" (PDF) (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
- ^ Louis Blondel (1937). "Les maisons de campagne aux environs de Genève". Das Werk: Architektur und Kunst = L'Oeuvre: Architecture et Art (in French). Vol. cahier 6. pp. 161–170. doi:10.5169/seals-87177.
Bibliography
edit- de Pénanrun, David; Roux, Louis Thérèse; Delaire, Edmond Augustin (1907). Les Architectes élèves de l'école des beaux-arts (1793-1907) (in French). Librairie de la construction moderne. DPRD1907.
- Bauchal, Charles (1887). Nouveau dictionnaire des architectes français (in French). André, Daly fils et Cie. CB1887.
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