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Description:
Project for the decoration of the Choir of the Royal, Curial & Parish Church of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, Paris.Pen and brown and green ink wash. 43.4 x 29.5 cm, in a frame of 56 x 42.5 cm. Signed at the bottom left: "LeBon architect du Roy. Jur."
This unpublished sheet depicts a decoration project for the choir of the Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois church in Paris. Executed by Pierre-Étienne Le Bon, this proposal with refined ornamentation is part of an iconographic program dedicated to the Resurrection of Christ.
Pierre-Étienne Le Bon was born in Paris around 1700 and died in 1754. A student of Jean-Sylvain Cartaud, he was the second Grand Prix de Rome in 1724 and the first Grand Prix the following year. He was a resident in Rome from 1728 to 1731.
Bibliography:
Michel Gallet, Les Architectes parisiens du XVIIIe siècle, Paris, éditions Mengès, 1995.
Jean-Marie Pérouse de Montclos, Les Prix de Rome, Concours de l'Académie royale d'architecture au XVIIIe siècle, Berger-Levrault, École nationale… Read More
