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23-557: Built between 1652, and 1681 for Etienne Lantin, councillor in the Accounts Chamber, the townhouse became the property of the Magnin family in the 19th century, when Jean-Hugues Magnin (1791–1856), bought it in 1829. Without altering its historic flavor, the townhouse was redesigned in the 1930s by the Parisian architect Auguste Perret , to house the collection that Maurice Magnin, a year after

46-550: A Beaux Arts neoclassicist who had collaborated with Charles Garnier on the construction of the Paris Opera . Beyond the neoclassical rationalism he learned from Gaudet, Perret's particular interest was the structure of buildings and the use of new materials, such as concrete. Though he was considered a brilliant student, he left school without obtaining a diploma and went to work for the family firm. Perret immediately began experimenting with concrete. His first important project

69-572: A collection of major artists and little known minor masters. Brother and sister "looked less for the often illusionary spark of great names than for a chain of talent throughout the ages". The collectors manifested a predilection for the French School from the 16th to the 19th centuries, especially well represented. Important 17th century works from Eustache Le Sueur , Laurent de La Hyre , Sébastien Bourdon and Jean Baptiste de Champaigne highlight this latter collection. The museum visit begins with

92-635: Is one of the highlights) and the 18th century ( Giovanni Battista Tiepolo , Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini ...). There are also examples from both the Lombardian and Neapolitan Schools ( Giovanni Stefano Danedi called Montalto, Giovanni Battista Cerano, Gaspare Traversi ...). By choosing carefully, the Magnins accumulated an exceptional group of 17th French paintings. The two Putti Musicians by Laurent de La Hyre , The dream of Poliphile by Eustache Le Sueur and The Holy Family by Sébastien Bourdon all illustrate

115-562: The Parisian Atticism of the years between 1640 and 1650. The 18th century has not been neglected, but is more represented by drawings and paintings of minor masters ( Hyacinthe Collin de Vermont , Michel-François Dandré-Bardon , Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre ), than the grand painters like Jean-Antoine Watteau and Jean-Honoré Fragonard whose works acquired by the Magnins are no longer attributed to them. The 19th century collection confirms

138-618: The Perret Tower in Grenoble was declared a national heritage site by France. In 2005, his reconstruction of Le Havre was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO . Jean Bardin Jean Bardin (1732–1809) was a French historical painter . Bardin was born at Montbard in 1732. He was a pupil of Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée and later studied at Rome. He became a popular artist in France, and

161-604: The Saclay Nuclear Research Centre in the Paris suburb of Essonne. He described this campus as a "small Versailles for nuclear research". Most of France's early nuclear reactors were constructed within the site. His other major postwar projects included the reconstruction of the center of the port of Le Havre , which had been almost totally destroyed during the war. His first plan was rejected as too ambitious, but his modified plans were followed. He also participated in

184-556: The International Exhibition of Hydropower and Tourism of Grenoble (1925), to demonstrate his "Order of Concrete"; and the church of Notre Dame du Raincy (1922–23), where the interior columns were left undecorated and the concrete vaults of the ceiling became the most prominent decorative feature. He experimented with concrete forms to achieve the best acoustics for the concert hall of the École Normale de Musique de Paris in Paris. (1929) In 1952, he completed construction of

207-456: The Romantic period, Paul Delaroche , Alexandre-Évariste Fragonard or Eugène Devéria . The originality of this collection resides not only in the variety of artists represented but also in curiosity the Magnins had for the provincial schools. With Burgundian origins, Jeanne and Maurice involved themselves with art from their region as well as from Franche-Comté. Among some of the artists found at

230-632: The building of the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council , originally built for the Museum of Public Works of the 1937 Paris Exposition; and the Mobilier Nationale, the national government furniture atelier in Paris. He also created innovative industrial buildings, including a warehouse in Casablanca covered with a think veil of concrete (1915); the Perret Tower , the first concrete tower for

253-588: The city is now a World Heritage Site for its exceptional urban planning and architecture. Auguste Perret was born in Ixelles , Belgium, where his father, a stonemason, had taken refuge after the Paris Commune . He received his early education in architecture in the family firm. He was accepted in the architecture course of the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, along with his two brothers, Gustave (1876–1952) and Claude (1880–1960). where he studied under Julien Guadet ,

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276-757: The death of his sister Jeanne, willed to the State in 1938. This choice followed donations to the Musée Jacquemart-André in 1912, and the Musée Bonnat in 1922. In accordance with the donor's wishes, the museum has retained its characters as an amateur's cabinet and private dwelling, and can neither lend nor expand the collection. Maurice Magnin (1861–1939), referendum councilor in Accounts Court and art lover, and his sister Jeanne (1855–1937), painter and amateur art critic, randomly put together, through public auctions,

299-517: The definitive and original taste of the collectors. Here one finds fewer beacons of Neo-classicism, Romanticism or Realism than paintings of François-Xavier Fabre , Pauline Gauffier or for the Post-revolutionary period the subtle and extremely rare landscapes of Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson . Their appreciation of the intimist works of the 1830s is obvious in their choice of artists such as François Marius Granet , Étienne Bouhot or for

322-551: The first Art Deco building in Paris; the Church of Notre-Dame du Raincy (1922–23); the Mobilier National in Paris (1937); and the French Economic, Social and Environmental Council building in Paris (1937–39). After World War II he designed a group of buildings in the centre of the port city of Le Havre , including St. Joseph's Church, Le Havre , to replace buildings destroyed by bombing during World War II. His reconstruction of

345-594: The galleries dedicated to the Northern Schools. Here one can admires, among many others works of Maerten de Vos , Roelant Savery , Jacobus Ferdinandus Saey , Bartholomeus van der Helst , Jan Baptist Huysmans , Jan Peeter Verdussen and Gerard de Lairesse . Italian art is equally well represented, especially by the Venetian Schools of the 16th century (among which Christ and the Adultress by Giovanni Cariani

368-566: The later International Style . His most famous building was the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées a project which he took over from the Art Nouveau architect Henry van de Velde . The facade was simple and decorated only with a sculptural bas-relief by Antoine Bourdelle . The corner of the building was smooth and rounded, anticipating the Streamline Moderne style three decades later. Thanks to

391-526: The museum, we can name Jean Bardin , Bénigne Gagneraux , Jean-François Gilles Colson and Jean-Claude Naigeon . The Magnin Museum is not only dedicated to paintings. It brings together a wonderful body of drawing from French and foreign schools, and offers the visitor an ensemble of furniture, works of art and sculptures: in short, a choice of seductive works. One can stop to admire the Secrétaire de dame à double pente (Lady's secretary with double slope) with

414-530: The postwar reconstruction of the Marseille port and of Amiens . His last major work, finished after his death, was the St. Joseph's Church, Le Havre , (1951–58) whose most prominent feature is its tower, like a lighthouse, 107 meters high, and visible at sea. Among the many young architects who worked in the office of Perret from 1908 to 1910 was Charles-Édouard Jeanneret-Gris, who later became known as Le Corbusier ; it

437-430: The stamp of Bon Durand (Master in 1761) or in front of the sober Commode of Courte, a cabinet-maker from Dijon. There are also a few sculptures in the collection such as Auguste Préault 's The Wave. Auguste Perret Auguste Perret (12 February 1874 – 25 February 1954) was a French architect and a pioneer of the architectural use of reinforced concrete . His major works include the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées ,

460-516: The use of concrete pillars, the interior lobby and the theater itself was vast and open, unobstructed by columns. The interior decoration featured works by the modernist artists of the day; a dome by Maurice Denis , paintings by Édouard Vuillard and Jacqueline Marval , and a stage curtain by Ker-Xavier Roussel . In his later works, Perret used concrete in imaginative ways to achieve the functions of his buildings, while preserving classical harmony, symmetry and proportions. His major works included

483-456: Was admitted into the Academy in 1779. He was made director of the art school at Orléans in 1788. His subjects are partly historical, partly poetical, and sometimes religious. He was the instructor, in the elements of art, of David and Regnault . He died at Orléans in 1809. His daughter, and pupil, was the painter Ambroise-Marguerite Bardin . This article about a French painter born in

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506-416: Was an apartment building on rue Franklin in Paris (1903), where the concrete structure, instead of being concealed, was clearly visible and was a part of the exterior design. He made an even more radical experiment with the construction of a garage on rue de Ponthieu (1906) (now destroyed) with a simplified cubic structure expressing the interior, large bays of windows and a lack of decoration, which resembled

529-692: Was his first experience in an architectural firm. From 1940, Perret taught at the École des Beaux-Arts . He won the Royal Gold Medal in 1948 and the AIA Gold Medal in 1952. His work was also part of the architecture event in the art competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics . Perret also served as a juror with Florence Meyer Blumenthal in awarding the Prix Blumenthal , a grant given between 1919 and 1954 to young French painters, sculptors, decorators, engravers, writers, and musicians. In 1998,

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