Charles de Wailly
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Charles de Wailly was a French architect and urbanist, and furniture designer, one of the principals in the Neoclassical revival of the Antique. His major work was the Théâtre de l'Odéon for the Coméd
Charles de Wailly (1789), bust by Augustin Pajou
Project for transforming the Panthéon into a temple to the republic.
The pulpit, Saint-Sulpice, Paris, 1788-89
Maison 57 rue La Boétie, Paris, 1776.
Marie-Joseph Peyre
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Marie-Joseph Peyre was a French architect who designed in the Neoclassical style.
Charles de Wailly
…in Paris. Starting in 1749, he was the pupil of Jacques-François Blondel at l'École des Arts, where he met William Chambers and had as a schoolmate Marie-Joseph Peyre; later he studied with Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni and with Jean-Laurent Le Geay. After having obtained the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1752 he…
Portrait by Marie-Suzanne Giroust, 1771
Théâtre de l'Odéon, Paris