Louis-Hippolyte Lebas
Architect
1782 – 1867
Who was Louis-Hippolyte Lebas?
Louis-Hippolyte Lebas was a French architect working in a rational and severe Neoclassical style, who was trained in the atelier of Percier and Fontaine, the favoured architects of Napoleon. After Napoleon's exile he remained the assistant of Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, whose design for the sober Chapelle Expiatoire over the burial site of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette he oversaw in construction. He also assisted Éloi Labarre in completing the Palais Brongniart, the seat of the Paris Bourse, named after its architect, Alexandre Brongniart.
One of his most known work is the Parisian church Notre-Dame-de-Lorette for which he was commissioned in 1823 and that he achieved in 1836. He built the former prison of Petite Roquette, which was the first example in France of a progressive panoptic prison.
Lebas taught the History of Architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts, from 1840 to 1863. In this teaching role, applying the art-historical method of Johann Joachim Winckelmann to the study of historical architecture, he set a mark on several generations of young French architects.
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