Contant d'Ivry's Neoclassical screen across the cour d'honneur of the Palais-Royal, Paris

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An Architecte du Roi from 1728, Pierre Contant d'Ivry spent his career working for the French Crown and for an aristocratic private clientèle: the contrôleur Machault d'Arnouville, the princes de Soubise and de Croÿ, and baron Bernstorff, the Danish ambassador. Though he was not formally received into the Académie royale d'architecture until 1751, he was the architect attached first to Louis François I de Bourbon, prince de Conti between 1737 and 1749^[1], then to Louis-Philippe, duc d'Orléans (1725–1785), for whom he transformed interiors of the Palais-Royale, Paris, in 1754, designs that were widely admired and published by Diderot and d'Alembert in the Encyclopédie, 1762, where Blondel praised their "correct middle pathway between two excesses, that of the heavy weight of our ancients and that of frivolity"^[2]. Charles de Rohan, prince de Soubise (1715–July 4, 1787) was a peer and marshal of France, the grandson of the Princesse de Soubise, who is known to history as one of the mistresses of Louis XIV. He accompanied Louis XV in the campaign of 1744-1748 and attained high... Andreas Peter Bernstorff (August 28, 1735 - June 21, 1797) was a Danish stateman and politician. ... Louis Philippe, duc dOrléans (May 12, 1725 - November 18, 1785), son of Louis, duke of Orléans, was born at Versailles, and was known as the duke of Chartres until his fathers death in 1752. ... Palais Royale is a dance hall located at the foot of Roncesvalles Avenue in Toronto, Ontario Canada on Lake Ontario. ... Portrait of Diderot by Louis-Michel van Loo, 1767 Denis Diderot (October 5, 1713 – July 31, 1784) was a French philosopher and writer. ... Jean le Rond dAlembert, pastel by Maurice Quentin de la Tour Jean Le Rond dAlembert (November 16, 1717 – October 29, 1783) was a French mathematician, mechanician, physicist and philosopher. ... Fig. ... Blondel (de Nesle, late 12th century) was a French poet and musician, a trouvère (later troubadour). ...

In 1757, he presented a project for the new Église de la Madeleine, Paris, for which he drew inspiration from Jacques-Germain Soufflot's Église Sainte-Geneviève. Though the foundation stone was laid by Louis XV in 1763, funds lagged, and after Contant d'Ivry's death, the plans were modified, then the partially-built structure was razed and begun anew. Église de la Madeleine, Paris Léglise de la Madeleine, or Léglise Sainte-Marie-Madeleine (or simply La Madeleine), is a church in the 8th arrondissement of Paris that was designed as a temple to the glory of Napoleons army. ... Jacques Germain Soufflot (July 22, 1713 – August 29, 1780) was a French architect in the international circle that introduced Neoclassicism. ... Louis XV (February 15, 1710 – May 10, 1774), the Beloved (French: le Bien-Aimé), was King of France from 1715 until his death. ...

Principal commissions

• Château de Bizy, Vernon (Eure), for the maréchal de Belle-Isle (ca 1740, partly destroyed).
• Hôtel d'Évreux, 19 Place Vendôme, Paris : grand staircase and boiseries (1747).
• Château d'Arnouville at Arnouville-lès-Gonesse, for Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville. He collaborated there with Jean-Michel Chevotet, (1751–1757).
• Palais-Royal, Paris: After a fire in 1763, Contant d'Ivry rebuilt the central block, with its facade on the cour d'honneur and the monumental staircase (1765) [1]. He provided décors for two main rooms, the salle de la section des Finances du Conseil d'État, (notably for the carved fielded panels of its double doors and its ceiling cornice) and the neoclassical salle à manger of the duchesse d'Orléans, (1765; now the salle du Tribunal des conflits), one of the earliest neoclassical interiors in Paris.
• Château de Saint-Cloud
• Project for the Abbey and church of Pentemont, rue de Bellechasse at rue de Grenelle, Paris (published 1769): The structures as built were to another design.
• Hôpital général, Valenciennes (1750)
• The new palace Saint-Vaast d’Arras, Arras.
• Église Saint-Wasnon at Condé-sur-Escaut (1751).
• Château de Stors (Oise): Chapel for the prince de Conti.

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Garden designs

• Château de Chamarande (Essonne).He provided a theater en plein air, an orangerie, a buffet d'eau, belvedere et designs for an ornamental vegetable garden.
• Château d'Heilly (Somme).
• Château de Bizy à Vernon (Eure).
• Château de L'Isle-Adam à L'Isle-Adam.
• Château de Stors (Oise). The park and the monumental terraces.

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Furniture designs

• Console table, gilded wood, c 1750-55; set of four wall lights, 1756. The Getty Center, Los Angeles.

Footnotes

1. ^ He was replaced in this position by Jean-Baptiste Courtonne.
2. ^ "juste milieu entre deux excès, celui de la pesanteur de nos anciens et celui de la frivolité"

References

• Jean-Louis Baritou, Chevotet, Contant, Chaussard, Paris, Délégation à l'Action Artistique de la Ville de Paris, La Manufacture, 1987, ISBN 2-904638-98-9
• Frédéric Dassas, Les Résidences du Prince de Conti, mémoire de maîtrise d’histoire de l’art sous la direction d’Antoine Schnapper, Paris IV-Sorbonne, 1995.
• Svend Ericson, Early Neo-Classicism in France
• Michel Gallet. Les architectes parisiens du XVIIIe siècle, Editions Mengès, Paris (France) , ISBN 2-8562-0370-1, 1995.
• Gabrielle Joudiou, L’Architecte Contant d’Ivry à L’Isle-Adam et à Stors, in Les Trésors des Princes de Bourbon Conti, Editions Somogy, May 2000, pp. 107-111.
• Gabrielle Joudiou, "L’art des jardins chez Contant d’Ivry" in Annales du Centre Ledoux II, 1998.
• Gabrielle Joudiou, "Contant d’Ivry et les jardins classiques au XVIIIe siècle " in Jardins du Val-d’Oise, 1993.
• Gabrielle Joudiou, "Pierre Contant d’Ivry" in Un cabinet d’architectes au siècle des Lumières, sous la direction de J.L. Baritou et D. Foussard, La Martinière, Paris, 1987, pp. 86-181.
• Elyne Olivier-Valengin, "Le château des princes de Bourbon Conti à L’Isle-Adam", in Les Trésors des Princes de Bourbon Conti, Editions Somogy, pp. 112-123.

External links

• Getty Museum: Pierre Contant d'Ivry
• Association de Sauvegardede du Domaine de Stors