About Jean Francois Blondel
Lived 1683 – 1756 (aged 72–73). Jean Francois Blondel was a French architect and painter.
Jean-François Blondel (1683 – 9 October 1756) was a French architect.
Biography Born in Rouen, Blondel was admitted in the Académie d'Architecture in 1728.
He was the master and uncle of Jacques-François. He also had another nephew as a student, Jean-Baptiste Michel Vallin de la Mothe, whom he took in his agency on his return from Rome.
Main realisations Maison Mallet, Geneva, 1724 Maison de Saussure, , 1724-1730 Maison Rouillé, Paris, 1732–1739 , 1736-1740 , 1741-1747 (destroyed in 1944) Hôtel des gardes du Roi, Versailles, 1750-1754
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Who was Jean Francois Blondel?
French architect (1683-1756)
When was Jean Francois Blondel born?
Jean Francois Blondel was born in 1683 in Rouen.
When did Jean Francois Blondel die?
Jean Francois Blondel died on 9 October 1756 in Paris.
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Jean Francois Blondel was an architect and painter.
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Jean Francois Blondel was French.
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