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The Maison pompéienne ("Pompeian house"), sometimes called the Palais pompéien ("Pompeian palace") was the
hôtel particulier
An ''hôtel particulier'' () is a grand townhouse, comparable to the British townhouse or mansion. Whereas an ordinary ''maison'' (house) was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a s ...
of
Prince Jérôme Napoléon in Paris in the style of the
Villa of Diomedes
The Villa of Diomedes is an ancient Roman villa near Pompeii, Italy.
It is located outside the walls of Pompeii on the Via dei Sepolcri to the Gate of Herculaneum.
It was excavated from 1771 to 1774 by Francesco La Vega.
It was named after Ma ...
in
Pompeii. It was located at 16-18
Avenue Montaigne
Avenue Montaigne () is a street in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Origin of the name
Avenue Montaigne was originally called the Allée des Veuves (widows' alley) because women in mourning gathered there, but the street has changed muc ...
from 1860 to 1891.
It was built in 1856-1860 on the former site of the Pavillon des Beaux-Arts of the
Exposition Universelle of 1855. As president of the Exposition, Jérôme had bought the land for it. The architects included
Jacques-Ignace Hittorff,
Auguste Rougévin, and finally
Alfred-Nicolas Normand.
[Sara Betzer, "Chassériau's Pompeii in Nineteenth-Century Paris" in Shelley Hales, Joanna Paul, ''Pompeii in the Public Imagination from Its Rediscovery to Today'', 2011, , pp. 120ff ] Camille-Auguste Gastine created the decorative schemes in
Pompeian style. Its interior paintings included works by
Sébastien Cournu and
Jean-Léon Gérôme
Jean-Léon Gérôme (11 May 1824 – 10 January 1904) was a French painter and sculptor in the style now known as academicism. His paintings were so widely reproduced that he was "arguably the world's most famous living artist by 1880." The ra ...
.
It is considered a good example of
Neo-Grec
Néo-Grec was a Neoclassical Revival style of the mid-to-late 19th century that was popularized in architecture, the decorative arts, and in painting during France's Second Empire, or the reign of Napoleon III (1852–1870). The Néo-Grec v ...
style.
James Stevens Curl
James Stevens Curl (born 26 March 1937)Contemporary Authors, vols. 37–40, ed. Ann Every, Gale/Cengage Learning, 1979, p. 110 is an architectural historian, architect, and author with an extensive range of publications to his name.
Early life an ...
, Susan Wilson, ''Oxford Dictionary of Architecture'', 3rd ed., 2016 , ''s.v.'' Néo-Grec
When Jérôme went into exile, he sold it to investors, who opened it to the public during the
Exposition Universelle of 1867. It was abandoned during the
Siege of 1871 and was in poor condition by 1889.
[Katharine T. von Stackelberg, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, "Architectural Reception and the Neo-Antique" in Katharine T. von Stackelberg, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, eds, ''Housing the New Romans: Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World'', 2017, ] It was demolished in 1891, and the
Hôtel Porgès
The Hôtel Porgès was a hôtel particulier on Avenue Montaigne in Paris, designed for Jules Porgès in 1892 by Ernest Sanson, with a garden by Achille Duchêne, on the site of the Maison pompéienne. It was sold in 1937 after his widow's death ...
built on the site.
See also
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Villa Kerylos
References
Bibliography
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Théophile Gautier
Pierre Jules Théophile Gautier ( , ; 30 August 1811 – 23 October 1872) was a French poet, dramatist, novelist, journalist, and art and literary critic.
While an ardent defender of Romanticism, Gautier's work is difficult to classify and rema ...
, ''Le Palais pompéien de l'avenue Montaigne: étude sur la maison gréco-romaine'', 1866
full text
External links
* Photos at th
Agence photo de la Réunion des Musées nationaux et du Grand Palais
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Replica buildings
Former buildings and structures in Paris
Hôtels particuliers in Paris
Buildings and structures completed in 1860
Buildings and structures demolished in 1891
Greek Revival houses