A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . ageof his series of chimney pieces, he describes himself as Architecte etDessinateur des batiments du Roi, but 1 cannot find that he everdesigned a building that was carried out, and his designs for housesand parterres are far too florid for execution. In 1670 he was employed on the Cabinet du Roi, that famouscollection of twenty-three folio volumes of engravings, representing themost notable events in the reiq-n of Louis XIV. He was elected amember of the Academy of painting and sculpture in 167
A history of French architecture from the death of Mazarin till the death of Louis XV, 1661-1774 . ageof his series of chimney pieces, he describes himself as Architecte etDessinateur des batiments du Roi, but 1 cannot find that he everdesigned a building that was carried out, and his designs for housesand parterres are far too florid for execution. In 1670 he was employed on the Cabinet du Roi, that famouscollection of twenty-three folio volumes of engravings, representing themost notable events in the reiq-n of Louis XIV. He was elected amember of the Academy of painting and sculpture in 1677.* He diedin 1684.^ Frcart de Chambray, author of the Parallele dArchitecture, etc., was at thehead of this Mission. ^ Mariette, Abecedario. Destailleur says 1657, but I have come across one dated 1654. List of members of the Academy of Painting and Sculpture, 1648-1793 ( Archivesde Iart Franc, i, 369). ^ Herluison, Actes dEtat Civil. Herluison gives an entry (St. Benoit) of theburial of Jacques Le Pautre, graveur in 1684. His widow, Marguerite Gastelier, diedin 1698, aged seventy-two. Pl. LI. I k^ ^-^ ^ 6^
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