Charles de Wailly
Charles De Wailly ( born November 9, 1730 in Paris, † November 2, 1798 in Paris ) was a French architect and town planner. He was considered one of the most important representatives of early French classicism.
Life
De Wailly began his training with Jean -Laurent Legeay to his classmates included, among other Étienne -Louis Boullée. At age 19, he was accepted at the private art school Jacques -François Blondel and met William Chambers and Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni know. In 1752 he won the Grand Prix de Rome in architecture, which allowed him a three-year stay at the Académie de France in Rome. The fellowship he shared with his friend Pierre -Louis Moreau- Desproux. Both took part in the excavations of the Baths of Diocletian. In Rome he became friends with the sculptor Augustin Pajou, created the busts of him and his wife.
His first major commission was in 1764 the construction of the castle Montmusard at Dijon. Under Jacques -Ange Gabriel in 1767, he worked in the interior construction of the Royal Opera of Versailles. In the same year he commissioned the royal building director Abel -François Poisson de Vandières, brother of Madame de Pompadour, with first drafts for a theater of the Comédie Française, and working on his castle in Menars.
Together with Marie -Joseph Peyre, he was appointed in 1772 to the architect of the Château de Fontainebleau. A longer stay was followed in 1773 in Genoa, to renovate the palace of the Spinola family. Several times he traveled to Italy in the matter and took the opportunity to acquire antique marble sculptures, to then sell them in Paris to wealthy customers profitably on.
1779 was the royal permission to build the theater of the Comédie Française, now the Théâtre National de l'Odéon is granted. Design and interiors were made together with Marie -Joseph Peyre and lasted three years.
The Landgrave of Hesse, Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse -Kassel visited Paris in 1781 and commissioned de Wailly with plans for the reconstruction of the Landgrave castle and its urban integration. De Wailly came to Kassel in 1782 and laid there in front of his plans. This was followed in 1785 three projects for the reconstruction of the castle white stone, later called William amount but not arrived on October 31, 1785 to execute due to the death of Frederick.
During the same period designs made to theater and palace buildings for the governor of the Austrian Netherlands Albert Casimir of Sachsen -Teschen in Brussels.
After the French Revolution it was 1795 in the newly founded Institut national des sciences et des arts, the field of architecture, selected. In addition, he was appointed as curator for painting and sent him to the annexed countries Belgium and Holland to seek out there works of art for Paris. After his death in 1799, Jean -François Chalgrin took his seat in the Academy.
Family
De Wailly was married to Adelaide Flora Belleville. His brother Noël- François De Wailly (1724-1801) was a noted linguist.