Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine

Pierre -François- Léonard Fontaine ( born September 10, 1762, Pontoise, † October 13th 1853 in Paris) was a French architect of the Empire style, which arose under Napoléon form of classicism. He worked closely with his fellow student Charles Percier. His teachers were Antoine -François Peyre Peyre le jeune (1739-1823) and Professor J.-D. Le Roy ( 1724-1803 ).

Publications

Together published Percier and Fontaine:

Pierre -François- Léonard Fontaine led 1799-1853 a journal. It was published in Paris in 1987 from the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris and the Institut français d'architecture. Fontaine had a literary talent.

Famous students

Here are some student of Charles Percier, which Fontaine taught the perspective:

  • François Debret (1777-1850)
  • Jacques -Marie Huvé (1783-1852)
  • Louis Tullius Joachim Visconti (1791-1853)
  • Achille Leclerc (1785-1853)
  • Augustin Caristie (1783-1862)
  • Louis -Hippolyte Lebas (1782-1867)
  • Paul Letarouilly
  • Jakob Ignaz Hittorff (1792-1867)

Honors and Memoria

In 1842 he was admitted to the Prussian Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts. According to Fontaine, a street was named in the northwest of the 9th arrondissement of Paris, rue Pierre Fontaine. It is the extension of the rue Notre -Dame-de -Lorette to place blanche.

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