Maison pompéienne
...on pourrait se croire à Pompéia, rue de Mercure ou de la Fortune, avant l'éruption du volcan; car ce n'est point un à peu près élégant, mais une restitution rigoureuse où Vitruve lui-même ne trouverait rien à reprendre, un traité d'archéologie d'une science profonde écrit en pierre et qu'on peut habiter.
Théophile Gautier, 1866[1]
The interior deserves inspection, but it can hardly be called a specimen of ancient Roman domestic architecture, as the plan of villas differed considerably from that of ordinary dwelling-houses.
Baedeker's Paris, 1878[2]
The Maison pompéienne ("Pompeian house"), sometimes called the Palais pompéien ("Pompeian palace") was the hôtel particulier of Prince Jérôme Napoléon in Paris in the style of the Villa of Diomedes in Pompeii. It was located at 16-18 Avenue Montaigne from 1860 to 1891.
It was built in 1856–1860 on the former site of the Pavillon des Beaux-Arts of the Exposition Universelle of 1855. As president of the Exposition, Jérôme had bought the land for it. The architects included Jacques-Ignace Hittorff, Auguste Rougévin, and finally Alfred-Nicolas Normand.[3] Camille-Auguste Gastine created the decorative schemes in the Pompeian style.[4] Its interior paintings included works by Sébastien Cournu and Jean-Léon Gérôme.[5] It is considered a good example of Neo-Grec style.[6]
When Jérôme went into exile, he sold it to investors, who opened it to the public during the Exposition Universelle of 1867. It was abandoned during the Siege of 1871 and was in poor condition by 1889.[5] It was demolished in 1891, and the Hôtel Porgès was built on the site.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Gautier, p. 10
- ^ Karl Baedeker, Paris and its environs, 1878, p. 159
- ^ a b Sara Betzer, "Chassériau's Pompeii in Nineteenth-Century Paris" in Shelley Hales, Joanna Paul, Pompeii in the Public Imagination from Its Rediscovery to Today, 2011, ISBN 0199569363, pp. 120ff doi:10.1093/acprof:osobl/9780199569366.001.0001
- ^ Théophile Gautier, Arsène Houssaye, Charles Coligny, Le palais pompéien de l'avenue Montaigne : études sur la maison gréco-romaine, ancienne résidence du prince Napoléon, Paris, Palais pompéien, 1866
- ^ a b Katharine T. von Stackelberg, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, "Architectural Reception and the Neo-Antique" in Katharine T. von Stackelberg, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, eds, Housing the New Romans: Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World, 2017, ISBN 0190664916
- ^ James Stevens Curl, Susan Wilson, Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, 3rd ed., 2016 ISBN 0199674981, s.v. Néo-Grec
Bibliography
[edit]- Théophile Gautier, Le Palais pompéien de l'avenue Montaigne: étude sur la maison gréco-romaine, 1866, full text