Charles Percier. Portrait by Robert Lefèvre (1807)
Charles Percier ([ʃaʁlpɛʁsje]; 22 August 1764 – 5 September 1838) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days. For work undertaken from 1794 onward, trying to ascribe conceptions or details to one or other of them is fruitless; it is impossible to disentangle their cooperative efforts in this fashion. Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major proponents of the rich, grand, consciously-archaeological versions of neoclassicism we recognise as Directoire style and Empire style.
Following Charles Percier's death in 1838, Fontaine designed a tomb in their characteristic style in the Pere Lachaise Cemetery. Percier and Fontaine had lived together as well as being colleagues. Fontaine married late in life and after his death in 1853 his body was placed in the same tomb according to his wishes.
CharlesPercier ([ʃaʁl pɛʁsje]; 22 August 1764 – 5 September 1838) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in...
replaced by Corinthian richness and splendour". Two French architects, CharlesPercier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, were together the creators of...
Directoire style was primarily established by the architects and designers CharlesPercier (1764–1838) and Pier François Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853). In its...
Percier and Fontaine was a noted partnership between French architects CharlesPercier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine. Together, Percier and Fontaine...
professional bond with his slightly younger colleague CharlesPercier. Between 1805 and 1810 Percier and Fontaine completed the works of the Cour Carrée...
of the main door of the St Mark's Basilica in Venice. Designed by CharlesPercier and Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, the arch was built between 1806...
July 1804 and designed by painter Jean-Baptiste Isabey and designer CharlesPercier. Nevertheless, the Marshals often chose to wear either variants of...
face; unknown dimensions; Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris Fan; by CharlesPercier, Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine and Antoine Denis Chaudet; c.1797-1799;...
the Tuileries, a more suitable setting for his imperial ambitions. CharlesPercier and Pierre Fontaine began redesigning the interior in the Neoclassical...
the Palace of Tau where he stayed. A new gold coach was designed by CharlesPercier. Large crowds gathered in the city of Reims for the event. The Holy...
Napoleon Bonaparte came to power, the most influential architects were CharlesPercier (1764–1838) and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (1762–1853). Their...
obelisk. Hittorff had been a student of the Neoclassical designer CharlesPercier at the École des Beaux-Arts. He had spent two years studying the architecture...
mentioning are also the Raczyński Library in Poznań (designed probably by CharlesPercier and Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine) and the Wybrzeże Theater in Gdańsk...
No award 1717 – Charles Lamy 1718–20 – No record 1721 – Charles-Joseph Natoire 1722 – No record 1723 – François Boucher 1724 – Charles-André van Loo 1725...
Fontaine du Palmier, by Étienne Bouhot (1810) The Rue de Rivoli by CharlesPercier and Pierre-Françoid-Léonard Fontaine (1801–1835) The Pont des Arts...
Tencin, French cardinal (d. 1758) 1760 – Pope Leo XII (d. 1829) 1764 – CharlesPercier, French architect and interior designer (d. 1838) 1771 – Henry Maudslay...
Hardouin Mansart Louis Métezeau Michel Mimran (born 1954) Jean Nouvel CharlesPercier Claude Perrault Dominique Perrault Auguste Perret Christian de Portzamparc...
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