Pierre-Adrien Pâris

Pierre -Adrien Pâris (* 1745 in Besançon; † August 1, 1819 ) was a French painter and architect.

Life

From 1760 he studied architecture in Paris. He traveled to Italy, where he visited among other things, Rome, Pompeii, Herculaneum and Paestum and there created paintings. In 1774 he returned to France. 1775 commissioned Trouard him with the interior decoration of the Hôtel d' Aumont.

After the death of Charles -Michel -Ange Challe, he was 1778 Dessinateur du Cabinet du Roi by King Louis XVI. appointed. In 1780 he became a member of the Académie royale d'architecture. In further orders, he was also responsible for the interior decoration of the Paris Opera. From 1784 to 1790 he was the architect of the contract for the construction of the town hall in Neuchâtel. In 1785 he constructed the Hôtel des Granges Depont in La Rochelle.

From 1787 he worked on the interior of the Elysee palace for Bathilde d' Orléans to the provisos of Étienne -Louis Boullée. From 1787 to 1790 he worked at the cathedral of Orléans. With the onset of the French Revolution, he withdrew due to its proximity to the professional King of Paris and lived in Colmoulins, Le Havre.

In 1806 he went to Italy, where he was a follower of Joseph -Benoît Suvée became director of the Académie de France à Rome for a short time and oversaw the work at the Coliseum. He arranged the purchase of antiques Borghese, he had her brought to Paris. He was appointed a member of the Académie Royale. After the defeat of Napoleon and the restoration of the Bourbon royal family in 1817, he returned to Paris. In the last two years, he cared for the cataloging of his paintings and collections that he left his native city of Besançon.