Jean-Antoine Alavoine
Illustration — Drawing of Alavoine by Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois Jean-Antoine Alavoine (4 January 1778 – 15 November 1834) was a French architect best known for his column in the Place de la Bastille, Paris (1831–1840), the July Column to memorialize those fallen in the Revolution of 1830. The column, consciously larger-scaled than the column in the Place Vendôme, has a capital freely based on the Corinthian order, with exaggerated corner volutes flanking putti holding swags, a complicated and somewhat incoherent design that found no imitators. However, in 1813 working with another architect, Bridan, Alavoine had designed to Napoleon's orders, under the direction of Ambroise Tardieu, a colossal elephant fountain, the Elephant of the Bastille.
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Jean-Antoine Alavoine
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- Died
- 1834 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- architect · sculptor
- Education
- Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Teachers
- Jean-Thomas Thibault · Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand
- Known for
- July Column
- Honours
- Knight of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Drawing of Alavoine by Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois Jean-Antoine Alavoine (4 January 1778 – 15 November 1834) was a French architect best known for his column in the Place de la Bastille, Paris (1831–1840), the July Column to memorialize those fallen in the Revolution of 1830. The column, consciously larger-scaled than the column in the Place Vendôme, has a capital freely based on the Corinthian order, with exaggerated corner volutes flanking putti holding swags, a complicated and somewhat incoherent design that found no imitators. However, in 1813 working with another architect, Bridan, Alavoine had designed to Napoleon's orders, under the direction of Ambroise Tardieu, a colossal elephant fountain, the Elephant of the Bastille.
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Jean-Antoine Alavoine (1776–1834) was a French architect and sculptor. The architect was born and died in Paris.
Jean-Antoine Alavoine studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. The architect was a member of Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen and worked in Paris.
Works include July Column. Languages used include French. Works by Jean-Antoine Alavoine are held at Archives nationales and Art Institute of Chicago. The architect received Knight of the Legion of Honour.
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This monument was intended for the same Place, to be constructed with a cast-bronze skin over a framework. The statue, in a circular pool, complete with a bronze mahout on its shoulders, would contain a staircase by means of which visitors could admire the view from its howdah. The monument was actually erected, but in staff, a moderately weather-resistant plaster, which lasted until 1846 before it was torn down, to great local relief. Alavoine's hothouse for the botanical garden of M. Boursault, at Yerres, near Brunoy, was illustrated in Jean-Charles Krafft, Recueil d'architecture civile: contenant les plans, coupes et élévations des châteaux, maisons de campagne, et habitations rurales, jardins anglais, temples, chaumières, kiosques, ponts, etc, situés, aux environs de Paris.. (Paris 1812) Plate XLVII, as well as a bridge for M. Hypolitte, in the park at Cassan (Plate XLII). In the early stages of the Gothic Revival in France, he produced a design for the spire of Rouen Cathedral in 1823, based upon the spire of Salisbury Cathedral (Glaser).
Jean-Antoine Alavoine studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. Training under Jean-Thomas Thibault and Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand is recorded. Auguste Pouliquen, Pierre Auguste Guiauchain and Pierre-Charles Gourlier are recorded as having studied under Jean-Antoine Alavoine. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Works named in the authority record are July Column. Work by Jean-Antoine Alavoine is recorded in the collections of Art Institute of Chicago and Archives nationales. Distinctions recorded are Knight of the Legion of Honour.
Jean-Antoine Alavoine is recorded as architect and sculptor.
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1776
Jean-Antoine Alavoine born.
1834
Jean-Antoine Alavoine died.
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Humphry Davy to Jean-Antoine Alavoine, [?November] 1813, The Collected Letters of Sir Humphry Davy, 2020
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- 1.Curl, James Stevens. Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. Oxford University Press. 1999. 978-0-19-860678-9.
- 2.Sturgis, Russell. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Volume I. Macmillan. 37. 1901.
Bibliography printed in the source article · 3
- Chirol, Pierre, 1920. Jean-Antoine Alavoine (Rouen: Lainé) The only monograph.
- Krafft, J.-C. Recueil... 1812
- Glaser, Stephanie "The Gothic Cathedral and Medievalism"
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