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Last Name Desprez

Given Name Louis-Jean

alt. Names L.-J. D. ;

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Year born 1743 in Auxerre, Bourgogne

Year died 1804

Place of death Stockholm, Sweden

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Education pupil of Jean-Francois Blondel, Jacques Desmaisons, and Jean-Rodolphe Perronet ; Académie royale d'architecture, Paris ;

Country of Activity France

Worked for Jean-Rodolphe Perronet (1708-1794) ; Abbé de Saint-Non: Voyage pittoresque (1781-6) ;

Patronage Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées; prof dof architecture & drawing at Ecole Royale Militaire; Gustavus III of Sweden; Botanical Garden Uppsala

Collaborators etcher Francesco Piranesi ; Chatelet ;

Techniques archaeological, natural history and landscape drawing, painting & engraving ; hand-colouring & architectural design

Sample(s) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Jean_Desprez

Archival sources Musée de l'Assistance Publique ; Musée Carnavalet ;

Published sources N. G. Wollin: Desprez en Italie 1933: 109-15 ; Pinault et al. 1984: 10f., 15, 32 & 34 ; Der Archäologe (Münster 1983): 98;

other Further Place of Activity: Italy (1777-84).

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