Jules Diéterle (8 February 1811 – 22 April 1889) was a 19th-century French architect, also a draftsman, painter,
painter on porcelain, sculptor and theatre decorator.
Biography
Born in Paris, Diéterle, son of Jean Georges Diéterle,
[Frenchized first names. They are Johann Georg Dieterle (without accent) or Dieterlen. Johann Georg Dieterle was born on 31 March 1774 in ]Baiersbronn
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, Ortslage Heselbach, Landkreis Freudenstadt, Baden-Württemberg
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, Germany. He applied for French citizenship twice: on 2 February 1833 and 15 July 1841. Source: Archives nationales, documents references, BB/11/344, file n°985 X2 and BB/11/450, file n°4537 X3. piano maker, and Marie-Antoinette Terrasson
[Jean Georges Diéterle and Marie-Antoinette Terrasson were married in Paris on 25 ]Prairial
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Prairial was the third month of the spring quarter (). ...
year 11 (14 June 1803) and the religious ceremony took place at the Sainte-Marguerite church. The marriage contract was signed in front of Me Louis Claude Laisné on 21 June 1803 (year XI). Source: Archives nationales, cote document MC/ET/XXVIII/610. From this union were born in Paris: Marie Georgette Diéterle on 25 ventôse
Ventôse (; also ''Ventose'') was the sixth month in the French Republican Calendar. The month was named after the Latin word ''ventosus'', which means ''windy''.
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year 12 (16 March 1804), Charles Édouard Diéterle on 24 September 1807 and Jules Pierre Michel Diéterle on 8 February 1811. born in Paris on 8 February 1811 was a very versatile artist. He started with the painter-decorator Hugues Martin, then joined the Dockain wallpaper factory, in Paris.
Diéterle later joined
Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri's workshop (1782-1868).
In June 1832, he worked at the
Paris Opera
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on the sets of ''
La tentation
''La tentation'' is a ballet-opera, a hybrid work in which both singers and dancers play major roles. It was premiered in 1832 in its original five-act form by the Paris Opéra at the Salle Le Peletier. Most of the music was by Fromental Halévy, ...
'', a five acts
opéra-ballet
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by
Jean Coralli
Jean Coralli (15 January 1779 – 1 May 1854) was a French ballet dancer and choreographer, best known for collaborating with Jules Perrot in creating ''Giselle'' (1841), the quintessential Romantic ballet of the nineteenth century.
Early life ...
.
In 1833, with
Charles Séchan
Charles Polycarpe Séchan (29 June 1803 – 14 September 1874) was a French painter and theatre designer.
Life
Born in Paris, son of the tailor merchant Jean-Fris Séchan, he lost his parents, who had no fortune, very early on. He learned the ...
(1803–1874), a student of Ciceri, he founded an association under the name ''Séchan et Diéterle''. joined them, followed by
Édouard Desplechin
Édouard Desplechin His name is often spelt "Despléchin" » with an acute accent. (12 April 1802 – 10 December 1871), was a 19th-century French scenic designer, one of the most famous of his time.
Biography
He created numerous settings for ...
.
From 1832 until 1848, his career as a decorator merged with those of his collaborators, but their association was dissolved in 1849.
That last year, Diéterle restored the
Galerie d'Apollon
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at the
Louvre
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with Séchan.
At the same time, he entered the
manufacture nationale de Sèvres
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as a master artist in 1840. From 1852 to 1855, he was head of art works.
Diéterle had the
Second French Empire
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as a sponsor and realized a service in a style called ''Pompeian'' for
prince Napoleon
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.
Diéterle married on 2 May 1843 in Paris with Émilie Louise Honorine Gardie
[Émilie Louise Honorine Gardie was born in London on 21 July 1823. She was baptized at St James's Church, ]City of Westminster
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, on 28 December 1823. She died in the 9th arrondissement of Paris
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In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as the neuvième (; "ninth").
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on 9 May 1874. daughter of Jean Louis Gardie
[Jean Louis Gardie (1795–1880) was a merchant and bronzes manufacturer in London. He was going to part with Ann Nugent Woodger. On separation and divorce in England, se]
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. It was restored in 1884. and Ann Nugent Woodger.
[Ann Nugent Woodger was a miniaturist painter. She had another daughter, Emma Augustine Gardie, born in the former 5th arrondissement of Paris on 19 October 1829, who married Louis Jules Haumont (1826–1906), an artist-painter, in the former 2nd arrondissement of Paris on 5 May 1851. Emma Augustine Gardie died in the ]17th arrondissement of Paris
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on 27 March 1894. From this union were born four children: Georges Pierre Diéterle on 25 March 1844, Louise Emma Diéterle on 20 August 1845, Charles Jules Diéterle on 6 April 1847 and Anne Marguerite Diéterle on 3 May 1853.
In 1848, he was president of the Higher Council for the Improvement of the
Gobelins,
Beauvais
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The commune of Beauvais had a population of 56,020 , making it the most populous ...
, and Sèvres manufactories. In 1852, Séchan and Diéterle went to Constantinople where they were responsible for carrying out the interior decorations in the Sultan
Abdulmejid I
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palaces.
Séchan unofficially became Diéterle's "stepfather". Indeed, he lived in a marriage from 1851 with Ann Nugent Woodger, separated from her husband
[Ann Nugent Woodger was born on 24 September 1801 in London and baptized in ]St Martin-in-the-Fields
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, City of Westminster
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, on 12 July 1803. She married Jean Louis Gardie for the first time at St Mary's Church, Putney, London, on 21 January 1819. After her separation from her husband, she lived with Charles Séchan. However, the notion of effective marriage with Charles Séchan in the legal framework is not certain. To date, no marriage certificate has confirmed this thesis. The only mention on this subject is in the death certificate of Ann Nugent Woodger in 1871: "wife of Mr. Séchan Charles residing in Paris". Except, the death certificate of Charles Séchan dated 14 September 1874 in the 9th arrondissement of Paris
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(death certificate n°1131) indicates his status as a single person and not as a widower. His biographer, Adolphe Badin, mentions in the preface of the book
Ch. Séchan décorateur de l'Opéra, souvenirs d'un homme de théâtre
': Does Adolphe Badin mean by the term "companion", that of a wife or in a more neutral way, the one who lives in a conjugal relationship with a spouse, without being married to him? Charles Séchan and Ann Nugent Woodger never married, simply because she was probably not divorced from her British husband. Ann Nugent Woodger died in the middle of the Franco-Prussian war, far from the capital, then besieged and bombarded by the Prussians, on 18 January 1871 at Dol-de-Bretagne
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where she had been living for some time, at the Grande Maison hotel located on Grande Rue (mentions in death certificate n°15). She was buried on 12 March 1872 at Montmartre Cemetery
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, 18th arrondissement of Paris
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, in the Séchan vault. and mother of Émilie Louise Honorine Gardie.
Édouard Bénazet (1801–1867), a French businessman,
fermier des jeux and successor in this capacity to his father Jacques Bénazet (1778–1848)
[In 1836, under the ]July Monarchy
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, games were prohibited in France. Jacques Bénazet (1778–1848), a financier, owned the Paris games farm and was forced to look for a new place, left for Baden-Baden
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. He obtained a concession for a casino in Germany in 1838. entrusted Séchan, Diéterle and his brother-in-law, Louis Jules Haumont, with the decoration of the four lounges of the casino, nicknamed the "Maison de Conversation" in Baden-Baden in 1853.
Diéterle was made a chevalier of the
Légion d'honneur
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on 14 August 1852, before being promoted an officer on 15 July 1867.
Diéterle and his friend, judge François-Alexandre Metzinger
[François-Alexandre Metzinger, was born in Paris on 9 January 1813 and married Alexandrine Françoise Gaudelet in Paris on 17 June 1865. He was the President of Chamber at the Imperial Court in Paris and a member of the Municipal Council of ]Croissy-sur-Seine
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. With the advent of the French Third Republic
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in September 1870 and the German invasion, he left Paris for the department of Seine-Inférieure
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. Three months after the collapse of the Second French Empire
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, Metzinger died in his residence in Yport
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on 20 December 1870. stayed in
Yport
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in 1856 at the Tougard Hotel.
[.] Under the charm of the Normandy coast, they returned the following years with a few friends such as
Jean-Paul Laurens
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Laurens was born in Fourquevaux and was a pupil of Léon Cogniet and Alexand ...
, Julien Gorgeu (Parisian banker, mayor of Yport) and Alfred Nunès (Parisian bank clerk, cousin of the painter
Camille Pissarro
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, mayor of Yport).
In 1863, he built the villa "Les Charmilles" in Yport, while his eldest son Georges Diéterle, moved to a farm in 1870 in
Criquebeuf-en-Caux
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, "La ferme des roses". During the
Franco-Prussian war, Jules Diéterle's mother, Marie-Antoinette Terrasson, took refuge in Yport.
[Mention written in the marriage certificate of Marie-Antoinette Terrasson's second son, Charles Édouard Diéterle (Paris 24 September 1807 – Paris 25 August 1875) married in second marriage in Paris in the ]9th arrondissement of Paris
The 9th arrondissement of Paris (''IXe arrondissement'') is one of the 20 arrondissements of the capital city of France.
In spoken French, this arrondissement is referred to as the neuvième (; "ninth").
The arrondissement, called Opéra, is loc ...
, with Louise Athalie Hermier, on 5 November 1870. During the
Siege of Paris the capital was then surrounded by German troops and many inhabitants fled the city. In July 1872, the painter
Camille Corot stayed with the Diéterle family in Yport and Criquebeuf-en-Caux.
Upon the death of Diéterle, the villa in Yport was sold to the landscape painter and portraitist (1854–1937).
In 1876, Diéterle became a director of the
Beauvais Manufactory
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and then president of the
Union centrale des arts décoratifs.
He resigned in 1882 for health reasons.
Diéterle died on 22 April 1889 in his home at 68 in the
8th arrondissement of Paris
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The arrondissement, ...
.
Family
Among Diéterle's descendants are many artists, including his daughter, Marguerite Diéterle, who married from
Châtel-Censoir
Châtel-Censoir () is a commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France.
See also
*Communes of the Yonne department
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The commu ...
, painter and director of the Gobelins and Beauvais manufacturies. His great-grandson
Hubert de Givenchy
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is one of the most important couturiers of the 20th century.
Another of his children is the draughtsman, painter and architect, Georges Diéterle (1844–1937), and one of Jules Diéterle's granddaughters is
Yvonne Diéterle (1882–1974), sculptor and painter, wife of
Jean-Pierre Laurens
Jean-Pierre Laurens (18 March 1875, Paris23 April 1932, Fontenay-aux-Roses) was a French painter; primarily of figures and portraits.
Biography
He was the youngest son of the painter, Jean-Paul Laurens. His older brother, Paul Albert Laurens ...
, also a painter.
His other son was Charles Diéterle (1847-1933), a painter, husband of Marie Van Marcke de Lummen called ''Marie Diéterle'' (1856-1935), a painter.
Works
Drawings and paintings
* Drawing of a Renaissance palace, with loggia and stairs: pencil on paper (37.5 x 60.3 cm), sold by Sotheby's London 13 April 1992<.
* Oil on canvas entitled "Hunting Trophy" (dated 1892);
tapestry
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carton for the decoration of the
Élysée Palace
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; housed at the
Mobilier National
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in 1892, transferred to the Roubaix Museum (inventory number: 6103-1086-5)
* Portrait of a sitting woman (oil on canvas, 107 x 73 cm), signed and dated 1874, sold by Christophe Joron-Derem 8 November 2006.
"Objets d'art" from French public collections.
[.]
* " Vase Diéterle ", or et couleurs
* " Vase Rimini "
* " Vase de Chantilly " : ''nouvelles de la Guerre''
* " Service Pompéien " du Prince Napoléon
* " Paire de vases ''Ly'' »
* " Coupe de Rivoli ", fond céladon, décor or et couleurs
* " Vase à quatre lobes ", d'une paire, fond bleu, riche décor en or de style persan
* " Pièces pour le service pompéien du prince Napoléon "; à fond rouge pompéien
* " Paire de vases ''Rimini'' " Ã anses en forme de serpent
* " Vase Diéterle " élément d'une paire à fond céladon et décor or avec fleurs peintes
Bibliography
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Notes and references
Notes
References
External links
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1811 births
1889 deaths
Painters from Paris
19th-century French painters
Officiers of the Légion d'honneur