Château de Choisy

The Choisy Castle (French: Château de Choisy ) in Choisy -le- Roi, department of Val- de - Marne ( Île- de -France ), was about ten kilometers north-east of Paris, on the banks of the Seine palace complex, which instead a little earlier building in the years 1680-1686 for Anne Marie Louise, Duchess of Montpensier ( 1627-1693 ), called the Grande Mademoiselle, a cousin of Louis XIV was built.

After several changes of ownership acquired in 1739 of Louis XV. , The location near the hunting grounds of the forest of Sénart irritated, which held in the typical for the French Grand Siècle classical Baroque style castle. The king from 1740 to enlarge the main building to expand several outbuildings and adapted the interior to the now prevailing style of the Rococo to. In 1746 he presented his Choisy art-loving mistress Madame de Pompadour († 1764) are available. In the reign of Louis XVI. drew the Queen Marie Antoinette would like to Choisy back, which remained until the French Revolution in the possession of the crown. The revolutionary government confiscated, parceled and sold the property to the National declared domain. The neglected and dilapidated buildings were finally demolished in the 19th century.

Remained were only the two entrance pavilions, the main courtyard, a wing of the farm buildings, the remains of the trenches and held in the style of French gardens parks.

• 2.1 Schemes of public and private spaces 2.1.1 1680-1716
• 2.1.2 1716-1739
• 2.1.3 1739-1774

• 5.1 Primary Sources
• 5.2 secondary literature

Architectural History

Louis XIV (Baroque)

1680-1693

The construction of the castle began in 1680 in the corridors of the former settlements Choisy- sur -Seine (now Choisy- le- Roi ), Thiais and Grignon.

( † 1686 *) signed the contract for the construction was by the building contractor and contrôleur général des Bâtiments de Louis XIV Jacques Gabriel II. He kicked at the same time as a building contractor and architect and seems identical to the relative in the literature referred to his work as an architect Jacques Gabriel I person. 1684 ended Jacques Gabriel being his active working life and died 1686 Jacques Gabriel is the father of Jacques Jules Gabriel. (* 1667, † 1742), who is also known as Jacques Gabriel IV. Jacques Jules was instrumental after the retirement of his father at the completion of the Château and after the completion of the work to him was attributed.

The contract was notarized by the following persons. Marie Delisle, ( the mother of Jacques Jules Gabriel and widow of Jacques Gabriel ); Charles Gabriel, ( the uncle of Jacques Jules ); Maurice Gabriel, ( a cousin of Jacques Gabriel ); M. Jules Hardouin -Mansart, ( a cousin of the mother of Jacques Jules Gabriel, Marie Delisle ); Chevalier de l'Ordre de Notre Dame du Mont Carmel, et de St. Lazare de Hierusalem, Coneiller du Roi de ses Conseils, Director of the Arts et Manufactures Basti Mens de France; Gabriel Blanchard, (painter and professor of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture ); Chemet, Contrôleur - Général des Rentes sur la clergé and Jacques Gabriel, who. Architect and contractor as well as a cousin of the later employed as an accountant and referred to in the documents as Architecte Ordinaire of Basti Mens de Mademoiselle de Montpensier Maurice Gabriel

1680 Jacques Jules Gabriel was still very young. Since he is not mentioned in the contract, it is likely that its share of the construction projects rose only after the retirement and the death of his father. It is also possible that he had later influence on the design already contracted. The completion of Choisy is certainly his earliest work. Jacques Jules Gabriel studied with Jules Hardouin -Mansart (* 1646, † 1709) and apparently he also was involved in the construction of the Château. The completion in July 1686 has been for the reputation and the future life of young architect Gabriel crucial.

• André Le Nôtre (* 1613, † 1700).
• Antoine Coypel (* 1661, † 1722).
• Anguier Michel ( * 1614, † 1686) sculptor and brother of François Anguier (* 1604, † 1669) sculptor;
• Le Hongre
• Charles de La Fosse Charles de Lafosse (* 1640, † 1716).
• Charles Lebrun, Charles Lebrun (* 1619, † 1690).
• Gilles -Marie Oppenord (* 1672, † 1742).

1693-1716

Choisy is 1693 in the possession of the eldest son of Louis XIV and Maria Theresa of Spain the Grand Dauphin over. He exchanges the Bellevue Palace in Meudon with Anne de Souvre Marquess of Courtenvaux, widow of François- Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois against the Château de Choisy.

Claude Audran was busy with the interior of the palace for the Grand Dauphin since 1699. He created for the royale in the Manufacture of fabricated tapisseries Tapisseriefolge the Grotesque months. (Heinz, 1995:250 )

Louis XV. ( Regency, Rococo, le style transition, early Classicism, le goût grec )

1716-1739

• Juste Aurèle Meissonier - (* 1693, † 1750).
• Jacques -Jules Gabriel (* 1776, † 1742) premier architecte du Roi.
• Jean -Baptiste Oudry (* 1686, † 1755).

1739-1774

1739 acquired Louis XV. Choisy and commissioned Ange-Jacques Gabriel (* 1698, † 1782 ) with the planning of other buildings. In the first phase the years 1740-1747, the equipment of the apartments of the existing Château was adapted to the style of Rococo.

• Jacques Verberckt Verbrecht (* 1704, † 1771).
• Jules -Antoine Rousseau ( * 1710, † 1782 ), sculpteur du Roi.
• Charles Cressent (* 1685, † 1768), ébéniste, sculptor and fondeur - ciseleur.
• Menuiserie
• Ceremonial decorations Sébastien Slodtz (* 1655, † 1726) the father of Paul -Ambroise Slodtz (* 1702, † 1758) and René -Michel Slodtz (also Michel -Ange Slodtz ) (* 1705, † 1764).
• Painter, textile and furniture designer Alexis Peyrotte (* 1699, † 1769).
• Jacques Caffieri (* 1678, † 1755) sculpteur et ciseleur ordinaire du Roi, son of Philippe Caffieri (* 1634, † 1716) and father of Philippe Caffieri Caffieri l' aîné (* 1714, † 1774) and younger brother Jean -Jacques Caffieri (* 1725, † 1792) sculptor.
• Painter François Boucher (* 1703, † 1770).
• Jean -Marc Nattier (* 1685, † 1766 ).
• Carle Vanloo also Charles -André van Loo (* 1705, † 1765 ).
• François Desportes (* 1661, † 1743).
• Jean -Jacques Bachelier (* 1724, † 1805) and the Director of Porcelain de Sèvres.
• Claude Joseph Vernet ( * 1714, † 1789).
• Jean Siméon Chardin (1699, † 1779)
• Sculptor, sculptures, ornaments, (outside), Guillaume Coustou the disciples ( * 1716, † 1777), Jean -Baptiste Pigalle (* 1714, † 1785 ).
• Edmé Bouchardon (* 1698, † 1762). Gardens and parks.
• Lambert- Sigisbert Adam the Elder ( * 1700, † 1759), a sculptor.
• François Gaspard Adam (* 1710, † 1761) sculptor.
• Jean -Louis Lemoyne (* 1665, † 1755) sculptor.
• Jean -Baptiste Lemoyne (* 1704, † 1778) sculptor, gardens and parking.

Louis XVI. ( Late classicism, le goût étrusques ) 1774-1789

• Marie- Josèphe Peyre (* 1730, † 1785, possibly 1788), architect and Inspecteur de Choisy.
• Antoine -François Peyre (* 1739, † 1823), architect Peyre le jeune.

Interior Decoration

• Charles -Antoine Coypel indicated in his accounts to the work of his father Antoine Coypel (* 1661, † 1722) to the decoration of the ceiling of the Pavillon d' Aurore in Choisy, the result of an indescribable outcome of the daily renegotiation between the painter and the Grand Mademoiselle was.

Schemes of public and private spaces

1680-1716

• Corps du Château

• Structure of the apartments

1716-1739

• Corps du Château

• Structure of the apartments.

1739-1774

• Structure of the apartments.

• The main building Corps du Château

• Wing in the garden Aile sur le Jardin

Other facilities in and around Paris in the time of Louis XIV and Louis XV

• Palace of Versailles, Grand Trianon, Petit Trianon and branches
• Amboise Castle
• Bagnolet
• Schloss Bellevue
• Blois Castle
• Chambord Castle
• Chaville
• Compiègne Castle
• Conflans
• Clagny, ( 1676 ), Madame de Montespan.
• Issy
• Palace Madrid
• Maisons
• Castle Marly- le -Roi
• Montmorency
• Château de la Muette
• Palace of Fontainebleau
• Fresne
• Castle Saint-Cloud
• Castle Saint- Germain -en- Laye
• Castle Saint- Hubert
• Castle Saint Ouen
• Sceaux Castle
• Castle of Vincennes

Archive

• Archives de la Marie de Choisy- le Roi
• Archives Nationales
• Bibliothèque de la Ville de Paris
• Cabinet des Estampes de la Bibliothèque Nationale
• Mariette, Architecture française