Victor Baltard

Victor Baltard (9 June 1805 – 13 January 1874) was a French architect famed for work in Paris including designing Les Halles market and the Saint-Augustin church.

Life

Victor was born in Paris, son of architect

From 1849 on, he was

His most popular achievement was, however, the building of Les Halles, the central market in Paris, during the years 1853 to 1870.[4] In 1972 and 1973, however, these halls were torn down. A single hall (completed in 1854) was classified as a historical monument and moved to Nogent-sur-Marne in 1971, where it is now known as the Pavillon Baltard.

Victor Baltard also built the slaughterhouses and the cattle market of Les Halles de la Villette,

He was largely instrumental in introducing a regular scheme of fresco decoration by modern artists in the churches of Paris, to take the place of the heterogeneous collections of pictures of all kinds with which their walls had been promiscuously decorated.^[2]

Works

Architecture

• The tomb of the composer
  Louis James Alfred Lefébure-Wély (1817–1869) at the Père Lachaise Cemetery
• The 12 pavilions of Les Halles in Paris (1853–1870) (the Pavilion Baltard No. 8 was moved to Nogent-sur-Marne in 1971)
• Cattle market of Les Halles de la Villette
• Construction of the Church of St. Augustine (1860–1871)
• Facade of Notre-Dame-des-Blancs-Manteaux: originally from the Church of St-Elois-des-Barnabites which was then located in the Ile de la Cité, but was destroyed during the work of Haussmann and reassembled by Baltard in 1863.

Restorations

• Restoration of the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois, in collaboration with Jean-Baptiste Lassus from 1838 to 1855.
• Restoration of the church of Saint-Eustache, Paris in 1844.
• Restoration of the chapel of
  Protestant
  church in 1844.
• Restoration of the church of Saint-Étienne-du-Mont: he directed the construction of the chapel of Catechisms and restored the facade of the church between 1861 and 1868.
• Restoration of the
  church of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
  .
• Restoration of the church of Saint-Séverin, Paris.
• Restoration of the church of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis: The architect is responsible primarily for the redevelopment of the choir and the refurbishment of the facade.

Gallery

• 
  Church of Saint-Augustine showing the cast iron shafts and iron-framed roof
• 
  The Pavillon Baltard in Nogent-sur-Marne, the last surviving hall from Baltard's Les Halles
• 
  Candelabra of the

  Panthéon
• 
  Portrait of Victor Baltard's wife (born Adeline Lequeu) and their daughter Paule by

  Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

References

Attribution:

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Baltard, Louis Pierre s.v. Victor Baltard". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 3 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 286.

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