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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 See also:PIERRE See also:BALTARD (1764-1846)  , See also:French architect and engraver, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 9th of See also:July 1764 . He was originally a landscape painter, but in his travels through See also:Italy was so much struck with the beauty of the See also:Italian buildings, that he changed his profession and devoted himself to See also:architecture . In his new occupation he achieved See also: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 See also:engraving . Among the best known of his plates are the drawings of Paris (Paris et ses monuments, 2 vols. fol., i8o3), the engravings for See also:Denon's Egypte, the illustrations of See also:Napoleon's See also:wars (La Colonne de la grande armee), and those contained in the See also:series entitled the See also:Grand prix de l'architecture, which for some See also:time he carried on alone . He also gained distinction as an engraver of portraits . See also:Baltard died in Paris on the 22nd of See also:January 1846 . BALTIC: See also:SEA Two of his See also:children were also architects . Of these the more important was See also:VICTOR BALTARD (1805=1874), who was born in Paris on the loth of See also:June 1805 . In 1803 he gained the prix de See also:Rome at the Ecole See also:des See also:beaux-arts for designing a military school . He was largely instrumental in introducing a See also:regular See also:scheme of See also:fresco decoration by See also:modern artists in the churches of Paris, to take the See also: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 See also:church of St Augustin, in which he See also:united the structural values of See also:stone and See also:steel .

His most popular achievement was, however, the See also:

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

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