Pierre Corbineau (1600His death certificate bears the age of 78 years. – 23 September 1678, Rennes) was a French architect, a member of a family of French architects: the . They are found simultaneously in Anjou and in the .
Life He was the son of Étienne Corbineau, an architect in Laval with whom he collaborated. He married Marie Beaugrand, widow of the Laval architect, François Houdault.Of whom she had two children, Anne, married to François Beaucé, Sieur de la Lande, master harquebusier, who died before 1671, and François who, raised in Pierre Corbineau's home, became an architect. François Houdault married Françoise Fayau, who died on 15 September 1690, and who himself had died before 1680. In 1646, he lived in Château-Gontier and had once built a high altar in the church of Saint-Berthevin. The inhabitants of Parigné, who found it to their liking, signed with François Houdault, "master architect at Château-Gontier" an agreement by which he undertook to build un grand autel en ladite église de Parigné, suivant et conformément au dessin représenté par luy et sur lequel il a desjà marchandé un autre autel en l'église de Saint-Berthevin, et auquel sera adjousté deux portes pour aller au derrière dudit autel, et sur le hault sera adjousté une niche avec deux petites colonnes de marbre rouge de 3 pieds et demi de long, et quatre colonnes de marbre rouge ou noir au choix des-dits habitans, qui seront de longueur de 5 pieds et demi chacune, et lequel autel sera enrichy d'architecture et ornemens suivant ledit dessin. He had to provide the marble, tuf and plaster, transported at the expense of the inhabitants, who took care of the building stone, sand and lime; he received 1,520 livres tournois and had, during his work, a room with a bed and a table. In 1675, François Houdault attended his daughter Catherine's wedding with François Huguet and died shortly afterwards. In 1680, his widow lived in the house of La Guinoisellerie, inherited from Marie Beaugrand; she died there in 1690; he left six children François, sieur du Fresne, architect like his father and grandfather; Pierre, master surgeon Adrien, soldier in the King's army, Catherine, wife of François Huguet Françoise and Marie, single dead, the first on 16 September 1715, the second on 4 January 1736.
Corbineau had a son, Gilles who received with his stepbrother the lessons of his father and was an architect like his fatherOn the death of his parents, Marie Beaugrand inherited a house adjacent to the porte Beucheresse. On February 9, 1627, the household moved there. The Count of Laval, Henri de La Trémoille, seemed to have taken pleasure in making this residence pleasant to his architect. In 1632, he granted him a perpetual concession, for an annual fee of six French livres, of gardens adjoining his house avec l'exploit de ladite porte du costé dudit jardin in 1646, by deed dated from the Château d'Olivet, he remitted this royalty to him, describing him as the "architect and private master of our city of Laval". In 1643, he authorized him to clore de deux portes l'espace des murailles qui est depuis la guérite proche la porte Beucheresse jusqu'à la tour qui est au droit des cours des maisons dudit Corbineau et de M. Hiérosme Freulon, sieur de la Soucherie. Thus Corbineau received, on a perpetual basis, although revocable in law, the enjoyment of part of the rampart and platform of one of the towers of the Beucheresse gate. A little later, he owned the closet and the dwelling of the Guinoisellerie, near Laval. and a daughter, Marie, born a little before 1630, who, in 1650, made her religious profession with the Ursulines of Château-Gontier.
For Jacques Salbert, it is possible that his training as an architect was completed with another architect, perhaps Jacques Corbineau.
Style The Corbineau were attached to the school of Jean Bullant and like him, they liked to use the apparatus in bossing, the superposed orders, the friezes decorated with triglyphs.
Ursulines of Laval In 1617, Étienne Corbineau dealt with the Ursulines, temporarily installed at Pont-de-Mayenne, for the construction of the monastery.He agreed to build the church, the monastery house and other buildings, at the price of 65 sols la toise, twenty-one counted for twenty, all the necessary materials and scaffolding being provided to him on site the market stipulates some details of the portal and the tribune of the church.
In 1623, this building was sufficiently advanced that a new contract could be concluded between Pierre Cornillau, representative of the Ursulines, and "Estienne and Pierre les Corbineaulx, buttres architectes", who agreed to make and supply for the price of 1.300 Livres the high altar, the "pulpit of the preaching" in stone with Saint-Berthevin marble and black Chamberière marble, and two marble stoups, all in conformity with the drawings they have given them and where the Saint-Berthevin stone is figured in red. In 1627, the Ursulines took possession of their monastery. This was the first collaboration between father and son. The altarpiece disappeared in 1848.During a redesign of the interior decoration.
Benedictines of Laval On July 10, 1630, Étienne and Pierre Corbineau made a commitment to the to build their monastery, chapel, dormitories, refectory, chapter, parlours, etc.Au prix de 60 sols la toise carrée, la pierre leur étant fournie sur carrière l'église aura telles dimensions qui seront fixées par les religieuses The portal, with stained glass above, will be enrichi au moins autant que celui des Monastère des Ursulines de Laval.Les pignons seront faits a rempaulx et pareils à ceux des Ursulines ou de . Six years later, in 1636, the Corbineau signed a contract for the high altar of tuf and marble, for the fence of the choir supporting the gates, also in marble-enriched tuf, for a portal on the Gast.The settlement of accounts is dated 3 January 1639. A short text, written a few years later, shows that Corbineau did not disdain less valuable work. In 1638, he was forced, vis-à-vis his friend Jean Lemercier, Sieur des Chênes, to build the fence walls of his orchard in La Pirauderie. In 1641, contrary to what J.-M. Richard indicates, it was Corbineau alone who built the front wall of a house on rue des Orfèvres. This facade in still exists.
Retable lavallois
For Jacques Salbert, Pierre Corbineau and his father were responsible for the elevation in 1630 of the altarpiece of the Minimes of Tours, which has now disappeared.The sculptures were delivered in 1631 by Charles Hoyau, Étienne and Pierre fournissent le marbre et firent le marquetage du grand autel et du tombeauM.-F. Rose, Le décor des églises de Touraine au XVIIe siècle, .
Corbineau is at the origin of most of the large altarpieces of Laval: the high altar of the before 1636, the altar of Saint-François in 1637, and probably the altars of Saint-Joseph, Saint-Pierre du Sacré-Cœur of the same church, as well as the main altar of the Église de la Trinité.
Buron d'Azé In 1638, the Monastery of BuronConvent of the Franciscans. in Azé called upon the Corbineau.The notarial archives of Château-Gontier keep a tuf contract between the religious and Abel Moreau of 26 April 1638: Moreau must provide tuf and the appliance of 6 fireplaces suivant et au désir du mémoire que en a faict le sieur Corbineau It is therefore possible that the Corbineau were at the origin of the Buron portal, the only current vestige of the Abbey.
College of the Jésuits of la Flèche
On November 24, 1633, Corbineau obliged himself, vis-à-vis the Jesuits of La Flèche, to make the high altar of their Église Saint-Louis de La Flèche, which one of their own was building, Étienne Martellange.He was to provide everything, including masonry stone, lime and sand, and receive for his salary and supplies 7000 livres tournois, three seven-thirds wheat and three wine pipes. The work was supervised by François Derand.
The altar was finished and consecrated with the church in 1637 by , Bishop of Angers. It is possible that he was also at the origin of the construction of the hospital of La Flèche, and perhaps the portal of the Collège Henri-IV de La Flèche.His style is very close to that of the great altarpieces.
Churches of Laval At the same time, several churches in Laval were rebuilding their high altars according to the new architecture in vogue. On April 29, 1638, the first stone of the high altar of the was laid and the work was completed the following year.
Jacques Salbert attributes the elevation of the main altarpiece to Corbineau at the . In addition, a contract was signed on July 31, 1637 with Corbineau, "master architect", by which he promised to keep the altar of Saint-François of the église des Cordeliers de Laval finished for the first Sunday of Lent.de tuffeau blanc pareil en couleur et de mesme nature à celluy du grand autel de ladite église, enrichy de marbre noir jaspé suivant le dessin que ledit Corbineau en a représenté, for the price of 900 French livres on outre gravera icelui Corbineau les armes dudit deffunt (François Cazet) dans les pierres d'attache qui sont au costé du vitrail de ladite chapelle. This altarpiece was to be completed by the first Sunday of Lent of the following year.
Domalain, Piré, Drouges, Verger-au-Coq The high altar of Domalain was built in 1637 by Corbineau.- Retable et gradin d'autel de Domalain The altarpiece has the same structure as that of the église de la Trinité de Laval.
Corbineau made a deal with the inhabitants of Piré-sur-Seiche on December 12, 1637, to build two altars in their church where, in 1631, he had already raised a high altar that still remains. He worked on its realization with Pierre Biardeau.
The church of Drouges has 2 small side altarpieces, the one on the left being a work of Corbineau- Retable latéral sud et tabernacle de Drouges. carried out between 1637 and 1640.- Retable et tabernacle de Drouges He also designed the one for the church of the convent of the Cordeliers of Rennes.
The altarpiece of the chapel of the - Chappele du Château du Verger-au-Coq in Saint-Germain-sur-Ille is attributed to Corbineau circa 1640.
Saint-Pierre de la Couture Abbey Jacques Salbert attributes the elevation of the altarpiece in 1641 of the Saint-Pierre de la Couture Abbey to Corbineau.He is surprised not to see any reference to it in all the studies carried out in Le Mans.
Architect and marble Appointed architect of the city of Laval in 1645, Corbineau is associated, like his father, with other architects for the operation of the .Étienne obtained a career concession from Adenette Gastin, lady of the Chastellier. He had to open, filling in the abandoned part and carefully putting the good soil on top, and pay 4 Livres Tournois per marble cart. This marble found its use in the altars built by the Corbineau.