#charles percier

[illustratus]

Napoleon visits the Louvre Staircase accompanied by Architects Percier and Fontaine — by Auguste Couder

[designobjectory]

A Set of Four Directoire Mahogany Fauteuils en Curule Attributed to Georges Jacob, After a Design by Charles Percier, circa 1800

[empirearchives]

Room known as the Empress’ Bedroom at the Grand Trianon in Versailles. Parade bed (1809) created after the design of Charles Percier (1764-1838) by the cabinetmaker Jacob Desmalter (1770-1841) for the imperial bedroom of Napoleon I at the Tuileries Palace from where it was transported to its current location in 1838. It was also the deathbed of Louis XVIII. This bed has been subject to several modifications. Its large escutcheon was altered several times and the layer was enlarged under Louis-Philippe. Original Empire balustrade (1810) by Pierre-Benoît Marcion (1769-1840). Marie-Louise selected the furniture in this room that remains to this day.

[microcosme11]

Napoleon marries Marie-Louise

...and some guys who really don't care:

I think this was on BnF Gallica, it's by Percier or Fontaine.

[livesunique]

Design for a Jardinière, with a Relief of Venus and Apollo,

Charles Percier, c.1805

[archimaps]

Design for the royal box at the coronation of Louis XVIII, Reims Cathedral

[desimonewayland]

Charles Percier (Paris 1764 - 1838)

Interior of a grand library

Pen and black ink and watercolor, over black chalk

Sotheby’s

[ryersonlib]

Architect of Empires: Highlights from the Library of Pierre Fontaine opens tomorrow. We’re excited to announce a public program being held in conjunction with this exhibition, Percier & Fontaine: A Master Class in Architectural Prints and Drawings, which will take place at 6:00 on Thursday, February 8.

Join Iris Moon, assistant curator in the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at the Metropolitan Museum, for the illustrated talk "Building between the Leaves: The Post-Revolutionary Architectural Interior in the Books of Percier and Fontaine." Following the talk meet in the Ryerson and Burnham Libraries to view and discuss the exhibition Architect of Empires: Highlights from the Library of Pierre Fontaine and to look at additional library materials with our speaker and the exhibition curator, Alyse Muller, research associate in the Department of European Painting and Sculpture at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then proceed to the Print Studio of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for a demonstration of printing techniques by Shaurya Kumar, associate professor in the Department of Printmedia, to learn how the illustrations in the books of Percier and Fontaine were created.

Registration is required for the library and print studio portions of the event. To register, please email [email protected].

Here you see two plates from Percier and Fontaine’s Recueil de décorations intérieures... (Paris: Chez les Auteurs, 1812.), as well as an image of Louis Messidor Lebon Petitot’s painted plaster sculptures,  Bust of Pierre François Leonard Fontaine (1839) and Bust of Charles Percier (1838).