Jean Le Pautre
Jean Le Pautre or Lepautre (baptised 28 June 1618; died 2 February 1682)
His designs, innumerable in quantity and exuberant in content, consisted mainly of ceilings, friezes, chimney-pieces, doorways and mural decorations. He also devised fire-dogs, sideboards, cabinets, console tables, mirrors and other pieces of furniture.[3]
Le Pautre was long employed at the
In 1677 he became a member of the
Le Pautre's daughter Marie in 1669 became the second wife of the sculptor Pierre Le Gros the Elder[5] and stepmother to the three-year-old Pierre Le Gros the Younger, who in turn learned drawing from Jean Le Pautre.[6]
References
- ISBN 9782717718874), p. 9
- ^ Auguste Jal, "Le Paultre, puis Le Pautre (Jean)", p. 773, in Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire, 2nd edition (Paris: Henri Plon, 1872).
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Le Pautre, Jean". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 16 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 464.
- ^ Elaine Evans Dee, "(1) Jean Le Pautre" in "Le Pautre family [Le Paultre; Lepautre]", Oxford Art Online. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
- ^ Thomas Hedin, The Sculpture of Gaspard and Balthazard Marsy, Columbia (University of Missouri Press) 1983, p. 227, n. 5.
- ISBN 0-9529925-0-7(in German)
- Préaud, Maxime (2011). "Jean Lepautre's Forgotten Seven Cannons", Print Quarterly, XXVIII, 2011 pp. 318–20.
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