Charles Percier
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Charles Percier was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days.
Charles Percier. Portrait by Robert Lefèvre (1807)
View of a Roman House (watercolor)
The eastern façade of the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Detail of Peace riding in a triumphal chariot from the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel
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The Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel is a triumphal arch in Paris, located in the Place du Carrousel. It is an example of Neoclassical architecture in the Corinthian order. It was built between 1806 and 1
Charles Percier
…during the Paris Commune, faced the Louvre across the Place du Carrousel and the parterres. In that prominent square, Percier and Fontaine designed the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel (1807–1808), commemorating the Napoleonic victories of the Third and Fourth Coalitions. Far from adhering to the classical model of nude statues, the…
Entablement and quadriga
Central bas-relief under the main arch