Pierre Contant d'Ivry (11 May 1698 in Ivry-sur-Seine – 1 October 1777 in Paris), was a French architect and designer working in a chaste and sober Rococo...
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Rue-de-Valois wing) were added for her in the early 1750s by the architect Pierre Contant d'Ivry. She died at the age of thirty-two in 1759. She was the mother of...
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1818, Paris) was a French architect to the king, associated with Pierre Contant d'Ivry and Jean-Michel Chevotet. He was also related to Chevotet, nephew...
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Madeleine, Paris laid; the original design, commissioned in 1757 from Pierre Contant d'Ivry, will not be completed. Chapel for Clare Hall in the University...
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church, designed by Pierre Contant d'Ivry and Guillaume-Martin Couture. The first design for the new church by Pierre Contant d'Ivry proposed a large dome...
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Parfaict, 18th-century French theatre historian (d. 1753) May 11 – Pierre Contant d'Ivry, French architect and designer (d. 1777) May 17 Gio Nicola Buhagiar...
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in the Encyclopedia of 1762 described the work of the architect Pierre Contant d'Ivry as shown in the Palais-Royal in Paris as the juste milieu between...
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for whom he maintained a lifelong respect. He then trained under Pierre Contant d'Ivry, and also made the acquaintance of Jean-Michel Chevotet. These two...
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grandeur and simplicity. The winning proposal, however, was from Pierre Contant d'Ivry. The many famous students educated at the abbey included the noted...
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Gabriel borrowed features of the proposals of Germain Boffrand, Pierre Contant d'Ivry and others. The most distinctive feature, the facade of columns...
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cornerstone on April 3, 1763, but work halted in 1764. The architect, Pierre Contant d'Ivry, died in 1777, and was replaced by his pupil Guillaume-Martin Couture...
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July 1698, Paris – 4 December 1772) was a French architect. He and Pierre Contant d'Ivry were among the most eminent Parisian architects of the day and designed...
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incorporated arcades which recapitulated those of the opera house facade. Pierre Contant d'Ivry, who worked on the reconstruction of the Palais-Royal at the same...
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building, the erection of which was begun in 1755 from plans by Pierre Contant d'Ivry, the architect who later created designs for the Church of La Madeleine...
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economist and historian. Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste (1765–1824), lexicographer Yannick Bonheur, figure skater Pierre Contant d'Ivry (1698–1777), architect...
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Parfaict, 18th-century French theatre historian (d. 1753) May 11 – Pierre Contant d'Ivry, French architect and designer (d. 1777) May 17 Gio Nicola Buhagiar...
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was built in the 18th century. It was redesigned by the architect Pierre Contant d'Ivry in 1840. In the same year, the gate was moved to the Château de...
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d'Architecture (1764–1766) where he studied under Julien-David Le Roy and Pierre Contant d'Ivry. He did not win the coveted Prix de Rome that would have sent him...
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Chalmazel, maître d'hôtel of queen Marie Leszczyńska. The architect Pierre Contant d'Ivry worked on the château for de Talaru, building new service quarters...
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little château de Garges which he rebuilt in neoclassical taste by Pierre Contant d'Ivry; it was modified in the 19th century and has been demolished. By...
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