Place de la Concorde
Item
- Title
- Place de la Concorde
- Alternative Title
- Place Louis XV
- Place de la Révolution
- Creator
- Ange-Jacques Gabriel (French architect, 1698-1782)
- Jacques-Ignace Hittorff (French architect, 1792-1867)
- City
- Paris, Île-de-France, France
- Address
- 8th arrondissement
- Rue de Rivoli and Champs-Elysees
- GPS
- 51.186667
- Location
- France
- Building Creation Date
- 1755-ca. 1775 (creation)
- 1829-1854 (alteration)
- Century
- 18th century
- Description
- elevation detail of one of the court buildings, elevations
- The commission for the Place Louis XV was awarded to the Premier Architecte, Anges-Jacques Gabriel. A preliminary design was approved in 1755
- the definitive plan in 1757. Construction of the Place Louis XV continued until the 1770s. Under the direction of Nicolas-Marie Potain, Gabriel's scheme transformed the muddy Esplanade into a knuckle that reinforced the great east"“west axis of the Louvre and the Champs-Elysees, subsequently extended to Neuilly, and linked it with the peripheral boulevards, the Cours de la Reine and, via a bridge built by Perronet in 1786, the Left Bank . The Place Louis XV acted as a catalyst for residential development along the north side of the Champs-Elysees. The Comte de Rambuteau levelled and widened the line of boulevards from the Bastille to the re-named Place de la Concorde (ca. 1840), also redesigned by Hittorff (1829-1854).
- Techniques
- line drawings (drawings)
- Classification
- Architectural Documentation
- Documentation Type
- elevations
- Style/Period
- Nineteenth century
- Cultural Context
- French
- Subject
- architecture
- cityscape
- City planning
- Street lighting
- Source
- Gromort, Georges. Choix d’elements empruntes a l’architecture classique et donnant des exemples connus de l’ap. Paris: A. Vincent, 1920, 64.
- Access Rights
- Public Domain
- creator
- Gabriel, Ange-Jacques
- Hittorff, Jacques-Ignace
- Item sets
- Architecture Illustrations
Ange-Jacques Gabriel (French architect, 1698-1782) and Jacques-Ignace Hittorff (French architect, 1792-1867), “Place de la Concorde”, Texas Tech Arch Design Images -- Open Access Collections, accessed May 13, 2025, https://exhibits.lib.ttu.edu/s/openarch/item/18672