Jacques Cellerier (1742–1814) was a French architect in the neoclassical style whose buildings can be seen mainly in Paris and Dijon.
Life Born in Dijon, son of innkeepers, a student of , to whom he was related, he continued his training at the Académie royale d'architecture. Together with his friend the sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon, he was pensionnaire du Roi in Rome before being appointed engineer of the Généralité of Paris. His work was mainly focused on private mansions and theatres.
A supporter of the Lumières, he drew the imposing funeral chariot that carried the ashes of his friend Voltaire to the Panthéon in 1791.
In 1790, he made the drawings for the triumphal arch of the Champ-de-Mars for the Fête de la Fédération.
In 1800, on the occasion of the celebration of the Treaty of Mortefontaine between France and the U.S, he proceeded to the restoration of the theatre of the . La Convention de Mortefontaine
In 1807, Napoleon I charged him with the task of erecting a monument to the glory of his victories over the English and Russians. He was finally replaced for this project by Jean-Antoine Alavoine.
In 1812, Napoleon entrusted him with the project of building a palace of the Archives, the first stone of which was laid on August 15, Saint Napoleon's Day, the Emperor being in the middle of the Russian campaign in front of Smolensk. This palace of the Archives was to be located in the new administrative district designed by the Emperor and was to face the Palace of the King of Rome, at one of the four ends of the Champ de Mars, at the east and along the river Seine.Roger Wahl, Un projet de Napoléon Ier: le Palais du Roi de Rome, Neuilly-sur-Seine, 1955, . Its realization was to be entrusted to Cellerier.Yvan Christ, Paris des Utopies, éd. Balland, Paris 1977, . The events of 1815 and the fall of the Empire, however, put an end to this project, which remained unfinished.
In 1813, he used again the gothic style for the first time since the completion of the Cathédrale Sainte-Croix d'Orléans, at the Basilica of Saint-Denis, which was endowed with a richly decorated Gothic chapel. Cellerier also built a neoclassical winter choir.
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Realisations In Paris Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique, boulevard du Temple (1769) Hôtel de Verrière, rue Verte-Saint-Honoré (1774) Hôtel of Mme d'Épinay, rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin (1776-1777) House of Duke of Laval, boulevard du Montparnasse (1777) Hôtel built for Cousin de Méricourt at 19 . Cellerier lived in. La maison du prince de Soubise, rue de l'Arcade (1787-1788) Théâtre des Variétés, boulevard Montmartre (1806-1807). Restoration of the Porte Saint-Denis (1807)
In Dijon , rue Vannerie (trésorier des États de Bourgogne) (1779). Grand Théâtre de Dijon, place du Théâtre. Cellerier only started it because his first stone was laid in 1810, but the work was suspended from 1811 to 1822. They resumed under the direction of the Parisian architect Vallot; the monument was completed in 1828Claudine Hugonnet-Berger, Pascale de Maulmin, Bernard Sonnet, Théâtres en Bourgogne Architectures du spectacle 1800-1940, Dijon, Direction régionale des Affaires culturelles de Bourgogne, Service régional de l'Inventaire général, 1996, . , rue de la Préfecture
In Maisons-Alfort Development of the school known as the Royal Veterinary School of Alfort, currently École nationale vétérinaire d'Alfort.
In Compiègne Former prison (1773-1778)
In Tremblay-en-France Rehabilitation of the Saint-Médard church (1781)
In Châtenay-en-France Saint-Martin Church (1784-1787).
In Saint-Germain-en-Laye Modification of the manhole of Hennemont in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1787).
References
External links Biographie Coupe sur la longueur de la salle de spectacles de Dijon, 3rd project, 1787, watercolor plan by Jacques Cellerier
See also Neoclassical architecture