Le Butard et la Muette : deux pavillons de chasse d’Ange-Jacques Gabriel pour Louis XV
Only a few of the many hunting lodges built for Louis XV and Louis XVI in the forests of the Crown now survive. Among them, Le Butard in La Celle Saint-Cloud and La Muette in the forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye stand out for the close ties between architecture and topography. Here, First Architect t...
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| Language: | fra |
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École du Louvre
2015-04-01
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| Series: | Les Cahiers de l'École du Louvre |
| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/cel/313 |
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| Summary: | Only a few of the many hunting lodges built for Louis XV and Louis XVI in the forests of the Crown now survive. Among them, Le Butard in La Celle Saint-Cloud and La Muette in the forest of Saint-Germain-en-Laye stand out for the close ties between architecture and topography. Here, First Architect to the King Ange-Jacques Gabriel shows, from 1750, the first manifestations of his style, the premise of neoclassicism. While the two lodges, during the Ancien Régime, perfectly met the needs related to the practice of hunting, an activity inseparable from the exercise of power, their usefulness was confirmed by the successive regimes of the nineteenth century. |
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| ISSN: | 2262-208X |