Émile Gilbert
Émile-Jacques Gilbert (3 September 1795 – 31 October 1874) was a 19th-century French architect. In 1838 Gilbert was commissioned to reconstruct the hospital for the insane at Charenton along modern more humane lines recommended by Jean-Étienne Dominique Esquirol; the new structure was completed in 1845. In 1843 Gilbert, as Architect of the City of Paris, was commissioned to erect the first of the model penitentiaries following designs of Guillaume-Abel Blouet, the Mazas Prison, in Paris.
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Émile Gilbert
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- 1874
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- architect
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- French
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Émile Gilbert appears in the authority records of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek as an architect (1793 – 1874).
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Émile Gilbert was born in 1793 and died in 1874.
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In 1858 he was commissioned to build the new Hôtel Dieu opposite Notre Dame on the Île de la Cité, Paris.
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Perspective view of the Hotel-Dieu in Paris, engraving by "Maurage"
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1793
Émile Gilbert was born in 1793.
1874
Émile Gilbert died at Paris.
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- 1.Le bâtiment de la préfecture de police sera finalement construite entre 1863 et 1867 sur les plans de l’architecte Pierre-Victor Calliat (1801-1881)
Bibliography printed in the source article · 5
- Foucault (Michel) et al., Les machines à guérir (aux origines de l’hôpital moderne), Liège, éd. Pierre Mardaga, 1979, (coll. “Architecture / Archives”).
- Les dossiers du Musée d’Orsay, 27, L’architecture hospitalière au , Paris, 1988.
- Pinon (Pierre), L’Hospice de Charenton, Liège, IFA, Pierre Mardaga, 1989. 256 p. :ill.
- Binet (Jacques-Louis), Les architectes de la médecine, Besançon, Les Éditions de l’Imprimeur, 1996, 176 p, dessins de Pierre Buraglio.
- Beisson (Georges), « L’Hôtel-Dieu », Autour de Notre-Dame, Paris, Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris, 2003, 246 à 250.
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Getty Union List of Artist Names 500268661, Émile Gilbert & Associates Architects.The Getty Research Institute
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Wikidata, structured authority record Q3588575: Émile GilbertWikimedia Foundation
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Émile Gilbert studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. He trained under Barthélemy Vignon. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
The authorities additionally record the headings Émile Jacques Gilbert, Emile Gilbert, Emile-Jacques Gilbert, Emile Jacques Gilbert and Emile-Narcisse-Jacques Gilbert. His recorded language was French.
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