Marie-Joseph Peyre
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Marie-Joseph Peyre was a French architect who designed in the Neoclassical style.
Portrait by Marie-Suzanne Giroust, 1771
Théâtre de l'Odéon, Paris
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
Marie-Joseph Peyre
…his training in Paris with Jacques-François Blondel at l'École des Arts, where he met Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni and formed a lifelong friendship with Charles De Wailly. He won the Prix de Rome for architecture in 1751 and was a pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome from 1753, where he was soon joined by De Wailly…
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.