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NAPOLÉON BONAPARTE (1769-1821)

Lot 115
05.07.2023 13:00UTC +01:00
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ID 991104
Lot 115 | NAPOLÉON BONAPARTE (1769-1821)
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NAPOLÉON BONAPARTE (1769-1821)
Lettre avec signature autographe ("Napoleon"), adressée à Jean-Baptiste de Nompère de Champagny, ministre de l'Intérieur. Paris, palais des Tuileries, le 8 Pluviôse an 13 [28 janvier 1805].
1/2 page in-8 (232 x 189 mm), sur papier. Pliures médianes dues à l'envoi d'origine.

Napoléon confirme au ministre de l'Intérieur la nomination de l'architecte Pierre Fontaine (1762-1853).
"La carrière napoléonienne de Fontaine commence véritablement en décembre 1799, lorsqu'il est chargé avec son confrère [Charles] Percier des travaux d'aménagement de Malmaison et qu'il est présenté à cette occasion au Premier Consul par David. C'est le début d'une immédiate sympathie qui ne se démentira pas entre le Premier Consul puis l'Empereur et celui qui reçoit en 1813 le titre de premier architecte de l'Empereur" (Tulard, I, p. 810). Nommé en janvier 1801 architecte du gouvernement, Fontaine est ensuite élevé, le 13 décembre 1804, à la charge d'architecte du palais des Tuileries, du Louvre et de ses dépendances, des manufactures impériales des Gobelins et de la Savonnerie, et des autres bâtiments intra muros rattachés à la Couronne. Le 25 avril 1813, Fontaine sera nommé Premier Architecte de l'empereur.
"Percier et Fontaine" sont universellement considérés comme les créateurs du style Empire.
Jean Tulard, Dictionnaire Napoléon, I, p. 810 et II, p. 488.

Letter signed by Napoléon, confirming the nomination of Pierre Fontaine as Architect-in-Chief, notably responsible for architectural works and interventions to be made on the Louvre, the Tuileries, Imperial manufactures and other official premises. Together with his fellow colleague and friend Charles Percier, Pierre Fontaine is recognized as the inventor of the Directoire style and Empire style.

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