Louis Visconti

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Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti (Rome February 11, 1791 – December 29, 1853) was an Italian-born French architect and designer.

Life

Son of the Italian archaeologist and art historian

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Louis Visconti came from a famous family of archaeologists - his grandfather

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Between 1808 and 1817 Louis studied at Paris's

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Collaborating with

. He is buried in Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris with a full size reclining figure of himself on the tomb.

Major works

• Hôtel de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, also known as Mle Mars, 1 rue de la Tour-des-Dames, 1821.
• Aménagements de l'hôtel de Charost, 39
  rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré
  , 1825.
• Fontaine Gaillon, place Gaillon, Paris, 1824-1828.
• Agrandissement du
  Palais du Luxembourg
  , 1834.
• Immeuble Farine, 104 rue de Richelieu, 1834.
• Château du Grand-Bury, 1834.
• Fontaine Louvois, Paris, 1835-1839.
• Hôtel de Pontalba, 41
  rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré
  , 1839.
• Hôtel Collot, 25 quai Anatole-France, Paris, 1840, neoclassical style
• Hôtel Visconti, 3 rue Fortin, 1840.
• Fontaine Molière, 37 rue de Richelieu, Paris, 1841-1843.
• Fontaine de la place Saint-Sulpice, Paris, 1842-1848.
• Hôtel de La Tour du Pin, 25 rue Barbet-de-Jouy, 1844.
• Château de Lissy, Seine-et-Marne, 1844.
• Hôtel Rigaud, 10 rue Mogador, 1845.
• Agrandissement du ministère de l'Intérieur, rue de Grenelle, with Moreau, 1846.
• Extension du ministère des Finances, 1846.
• Hôtel de La Vaupalière, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, rebuilding (undated)

Sources

• A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive, Russell Sturgis editor, 1901
• (in French) Françoise Hamon and Charles MacCallum, Louis Visconti. 1791-1853, Paris, Délégation à l'Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris, 1991 –
  ISBN 2-905118-38-5
  .

External links

• (in French) Page on base Structurae
• (in French) Article on Visconti on a site about rue Visconti, Paris