Jean-François Blondel

Jean-François Blondel (1683 – 9 October 1756) was an 18th-century French architect.

Biography

Born in Rouen, Blondel was admitted in the Académie d'architecture in 1728.[1]

He was the master[2] and uncle of Jacques-François. He also had another nephew as a student, Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de la Mothe, whom he took in his agency on his return from Rome.

Main realisations
  • Maison Mallet, Geneva, 1724.[3]
  • Maison de Saussure, Creux de Genthod, 1724-1730.[4]
  • Manufacture des tabacs de Morlaix, 1736-1740
  • Palais des Consuls in Rouen, 1741-1747 (destroyed in 1944)
  • Hôtel des gardes du Roi, Versailles, 1750-1754
  • Maison de Saussure, Creux de Genthod
  • Manufacture des tabacs de Morlaix

References
  1. (de Pénanrun, Roux, Delaire 1907, p. 130)
  2. According to his friend, architect Franque. Michel Gallet, Universalis.fr. "Jacques-François Blondel". Retrieved 20 April 2010.
  3. "Dossier thématique "La maison Mallet"" (PDF) (in French). Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 December 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
  4. Louis Blondel (1937). "Les maisons de campagne aux environs de Genève". Das Werk: Architektur und Kunst = L'oeuvre : Architecture et Art (in French). cahier 6. pp. 161–170. doi:10.5169/seals-87177.

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