LEGRAND, Étienne-François
(active 1775-1800 in Paris)

Exterior view

1775-92
Photo
Hôtel de Gallifet, Paris

In the 1770s Paris was being transformed at an extraordinary speed. Real-estate speculation was in full swing, driven by financiers, the nobility, and the clergy. Private residences were spinning up along the Champs-Élysées, as well as in the entire faubourg Daint-Honoré area. The new residences included the Hôtel de Gallifet, the grandest of all the surviving colonnaded Parisian houses of the late eighteenth century. It lies in the aristocratic neighbourhood between the rue de Grenelle and the rue de Varenne on the south of the Seine. It has an overly large, eight-column peristyle on the main façade, plus a grand staircase set beneath the dome, and stucco decoration by Etienne-François Legrand.

The photo shows the façade overlooking the garden.




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