Jean-François Heurtier
Illustration — Portrait of Jean-François and Marie-Victoire Heurtier, by Sophie Regnault (1801) • Illustration — The original Salle Favart (drawing by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand) Jean-François Heurtier (6 March 1739, Paris - 16 April 1822, Versailles) was a French architect.
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Jean-François Heurtier
Sophie Regnault · Public domain
- Born
- 1739 · Paris.
- Died
- 1822 · Versailles.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- architect
- Education
- Académie Royale d'Architecture
- Honours
- Prix de Rome
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Portrait of Jean-François and Marie-Victoire Heurtier, by Sophie Regnault (1801) • Illustration — The original Salle Favart (drawing by Jean-Baptiste Lallemand) Jean-François Heurtier (6 March 1739, Paris - 16 April 1822, Versailles) was a French architect.
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He studied at the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, and was awarded the Prix de Rome in 1765. He was received as a member of the Académie royale d'architecture in 1776, and remained with that organization until its dissolution in 1793. Under the reign of Louis XVI, he served as second-in-command to the King's Architect, Louis-Denis Le Camus. Later, he was Inspector General of the King's Buildings, and an official architect for the City of Paris. In 1801, he was elected a member of the Institut de France and the Académie des Beaux-Arts, where he took Seat #4 for architecture, succeeding Jacques Denis Antoine (deceased). Three years later, he was appointed Agent voyer (a superintendent of roads). He served two terms as President of the Institut in 1806. This was followed by appointments to the Council of Civil Buildings (1807), and as Inspector General of the Great Roads (1809). His principal works include the Théâtre Montansier in Versailles (1777), and the original "Salle Favart"; home of the Comédie-Italienne, now known as the Opéra-Comique (1783). It was destroyed by a fire in 1838. In the 1780s, he also designed a pavilion for the Château de Meudon; loosely based on preliminary designs by King Louis.
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Jean-François Heurtier is recorded as having received Prix de Rome.
Portraits of Jean-François Heurtier and his wife Marie-Victorie Heurtier in profile
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1739
Jean-François Heurtier was born in 1739 at Paris.
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Jean-François Heurtier died in 1822 at Versailles.
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Heurtier, Jean François, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
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- Louis David de Pénanrun, François Roux and Edmond Augustin Delaire, Les architectes élèves de l'école des beaux-arts (1793-1907), Librairie de la construction moderne, 2nd ed., 1907, pg.293
- Michel Gallet, Les architectes parisiens du XVIIIe siècle, Mengès, 1995
- Charles de Franqueville, Le premier siècle de l'Institut de France, Rothschild, 1895
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