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LOUIS PIERRE BALTARD (1764-1846)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 286 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOUIS
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PIERRE BALTARD (1764-1846)
  , French architect and engraver, was born in Paris on the 9th of
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July 1764 . He was originally a landscape painter, but in his travels through Italy was so much struck with the beauty of the
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Italian buildings, that he changed his profession and devoted himself to architecture . In his new occupation he achieved
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great success, and was selected to prepare the plans for some of the largest public edifices in Paris . His reputation, however, is chiefly based on his great skill in
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engraving . Among the best known of his plates are the drawings of Paris (Paris et ses monuments, 2 vols. fol., i8o3), the engravings for Denon's Egypte, the illustrations of
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Napoleon's
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wars (La Colonne de la grande armee), and those contained in the series entitled the
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Grand prix de l'architecture, which for some time he carried on alone . He also gained distinction as an engraver of portraits . Baltard died in Paris on the 22nd of
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January 1846 . BALTIC: SEA Two of his children were also architects . Of these the more important was VICTOR BALTARD (1805=1874), who was born in Paris on the loth of
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June 1805 . In 1803 he gained the prix de Rome at the Ecole
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des beaux-arts for designing a military school . He was largely instrumental in introducing a
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regular scheme of fresco decoration by
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modern artists in the churches of Paris, to take the place of the heterogeneous collections of pictures of all kinds with which their walls had been promiscuously decorated . He built many additions to existing churches, and also the church of St Augustin, in which he
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united the structural values of stone and steel .

His most popular achievement was, however, the

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building of the central market in Paris . Victor Baltard also built the slaughter houses and the cattle market of La Villette . He died in Paris on the 13th of January 1874, after a
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life of great activity in his profession .

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