Sur le modèle des arcs de triomphe antique, notamment celui de Septime Sévère à Rome, l'Arc de triomphe du Carrousel a été érigé entre 1807 et 1809, en hommage à la Grande Armée de Napoléon Bonaparte. Il a été dessiné par Charles Percier et Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine, architectes du Palais des Tuileries et du Louvre. Il célèbre la campagne de 1805, la victoire de l'armée française à Austerlitz et la capitulation d'Ulm en 1807

Location:

musée du Louvre

About the author(s)

Author:

Charles Percier

Also known as:

Charles Percier- Bassant

Charles Percier-Bassant

Born:

22nd Aug, 1764

Dead:

5th Sep, 1838

Country:

France

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Charles Percier ([ʃaʁl pɛʁsje]; 22 August 1764 – 5 September 1838) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days. For work undertaken from 1794 onward, trying to ascribe conceptions or details to one or other of them is fruitless; it is impossible to disentangle their cooperative efforts in this fashion. Together, Percier and Fontaine were inventors and major… Read more...

Author:

Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine

Born:

20th Sep, 1762

Dead:

10th Oct, 1853

Country:

France

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Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine (pronounced: [pjɛʁ frɑ̃swa leɔnaːʁ fɔ̃tɛn]; September 20, 1762 – October 10, 1853) was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer. Starting in 1794 Fontaine worked in such close partnership with Charles Percier, originally his friend from student days, that it is difficult to distinguish their work. Together they were inventors and major proponents of the rich and grand, consciously archaeological versions of neoclassicism we recognize as… Read more...