| Louis-Jean Desprez
- biographical note 1/3 |
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Louis-Jean
Desprez
1743-1804
Biographical note by Gilbert Blin - page 1/3
Louis-Jean
Desprez (1743-1804) was an architect, painter, engraver,
set-designer and decorator. He was active mainly in France, in Italy, in Sweden, but also in England and Finland. His works, varied in
their expressions but constant in their inspiration, are
particularly representative of the arts in Europe at the end of the XVIIIth century.
Born in
1743, in Auxerre, France, Louis-Jean Desprez was pupil at the Royal Academy
of Architecture in Paris. He followed the lessons
of Jean-François Blondel as soon as 1765, and then of Jacques
Desmaisons and Jean-Rodolphe Perronet. His objective was the
“Grand Prix” of the contest known as “concours de Rome”, with, as a reward,
the possibility of a stay in the eternal city as
“Pensionnaire” of the King de France. On several occasions
he failed, as his projects, imposing and unrealistic visions,
frightened judges.
It is
under the protection of Charles de Wailly, collaborator of l’Encyclopédie and future architect of the “Théâtre de l’Odéon”
in Paris, that Desprez achieved
his goal and obtained in 1776 the “Grand Prix” which enabled
him to leave for Rome.
Discover, on this subject:
- Desprez in France (1755-1777)
(extract from Gilbert Blin's and Rémy-Michel Trotier's
article Young Desprez's
years of apprenticeship seen against the background of the
wealth of architecture in France during the eighteenth century.)
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