Jean-Baptiste Lepère

Jean -Baptiste Lepère ( born December 1, 1761 Paris, † July 16, 1844 in Paris) was a French architect. He was an old companion of Napoleon Bonaparte and father of the architect Jakob Ignaz Hittorff.

Life

In Empire Lepère was an architect of the locks Malmaison and St. Cloud. His most important work was the planning of the Church of St. Vincent- de -Paul in Paris, which was modified and completed by his son. He has also set up the Colonne Vendôme and the base of the statue of Henri IV on the Pont Neuf.

Lepère was one of the many members of the Commission des sciences et des arts, which were taken by Napoleon on his Egyptian expedition. As such artistic member, he contributed a majority of the designs for a little later incurred, famous monumental Description de l' Égypte the.

The exhibition " With Napoleon in Egypt - The drawings of Jean -Baptiste Lepère " ( 2 October 2009 to 31 January 2010 at the Wallraf -Richartz Museum ) paid tribute to the first drawing and printmaking work Lepères in this abundance. The holdings shown are part of the stored in the Graphic Collection of the Museum Estate of Jacob Ignaz Hittorff.