Léon Chifflot Architectural Study Pavillon Palais Monument 1906 Ink And Wash On Paper

Léon Chifflot (1868-1925)Architectural Study for the Pavilion of a Palace or Monument Signed (illegible) and dated January 20, 1906 lower rightInk and Wash on Paper mounted on cardboard. Cardboard dimensions: 66 x 51 cm Jules-Léon Chifflot was born on September 12, 1868 in Dole. A student of Honoré Daumet, Charles Girault and Pierre Esquié, he won the Prix de Rome in 1898 and received a medal of honor in 1905 for his studies on ancient housing and the decoration of the Italian Renaissance. Knight of the Legion of Honor, member of the jury of the Salon of French Artists, resident of the French Academy in Rome, he is famous for his work, with Tony Garnier, at the Villa Medici (1913). In 1912, he obtained, through a competition, the construction of the new Town Hall and museum-library of Épernay, the work began, the old town hall was demolished and the offices transferred to a temporary location, but the war of 1914-1918 forced the suspension of the work. In 1918, the cost of continuing the work became too high and the project was abandoned. The Town Hall moved in 1919 to a former private mansion built in 1858 by Victor Lenoir. He died on June 19, 1925 at the Hartmann clinic in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He is buried in the Montparnasse cemetery (15th division).

Registration number of the Ecole des Beaux-Arts: 3824. Jules Léon Chifflott, born in Dole (Jura) on September 12, 1868, son of Jean Jules Chifflot, 32 years old, painter in buildings, and of Jeanne Barbier, 23 years old, brother of Marie Eugène Chifflot (1872-1957) architect in Paris, began his apprenticeship with Philippe Ruffier (died at 83 years old in 1904) architect in Dole, subsidized by the department of Jura, student of Honoré Daumet, Charles Girault (in the workshop on July 3, 1886) and Pierre d'Esquié, admitted to 2nd class on August 5, 1886, obtained a total of 19 values, Prix Deschaumes of the Academy of Fine Arts on June 16, 1888, admitted to the 2nd attempt of the Concours de Rome on March 13 1889, 1st class on August 5, 1889, obtained a total of 27 values ​​including 2 Second Medals in projects submitted on October 17, 1889 and October 15, 1891, 2 Second Medals at the Godeboeuf Competition on December 26, 1889 and December 24, 1891, and 1 Second Medal in the history of architecture on June 23, 1890, admitted to the 2nd attempt at the Rome Competition on March 12, 1890, Grand Medal of emulation and Jean Leclaire Prize in August 1890, exhibited at the Boston Architectural Club in 1890, "Une Bourse maritime", Beaux-Arts Projet, and Problem in General Construction, L. Chifflot, Loaned by Columbia School of Mines, Bouwens Van der Boijen Prize from the Société centrale des architectes in 1891, Girault certified on December 9 1892 that Chifflot worked for about 15 months in 1891 and 1892 on the construction site of a major building), Grand Silver Medal of the Central Society of Architects, Bouwens Van der Boijen Foundation, in 1891, graduated on December 13, 1892 (32nd promotion, A small town hall), accessit to the American architects' recognition prize on December 21, 1893 (A popular library, with baths and restaurant), 2nd logistician at the Concours de Rome on March 18, 1893, 10th logistician on March 17, 1894, 2nd Chenavard Prize on April 22, 1895 (A bridge at the mouth of a river), Achille Leclère Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts on March 14, 1896, inspector of works of the Petit-Palais, 5th logistician on March 12, 1898 and Grand Prix de Rome on August 1, 1898 (A Palace for the Guests of France, in 1900), resident at the Académie de France, Villa Medici in Rome from December 30, 1898 to December 31, 1902, trip to Tunisia, probably in 1900, on the way to Kairouan in 1901, 4th year sending to the Maison dite du Centenaire, and restitution of a Roman villa in the time of Caesar, Félix Duban Prize of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1903 (architect in Paris 6th [between 1894 and 1898, between 1900 and 1904, in 1925], Paris 15th [between 1906 and 1914]; ordinary architect of Historic Monuments, in charge of the Palace of Fontainebleau; auditor at the Council of Civil Buildings in 1903, ordinary architect of Civil Buildings and National Palaces in 1908, appointed chief architect of the Paris Observatory on January 1, 1911, of the Académie de France and the Palazzo Farnese in Rome in 1912, of the French Legation in Brussels in 1912, then of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1914 (after having been interim in 1911), interim architect of the Sèvres factory in 1916, member of the General Council of Civil Buildings in 1913 and 1914; charged in 1912 by the Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts with a mission relating to the study of observatories in England, Germany, Austria and Belgium, and with another mission to examine the advisability of purchasing a Fine Arts exhibition pavilion in Venice, Italy; charged in 1915 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a general inspection mission of French buildings in Tangier, Morocco; commissioned in 1917 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a mission to Geneva, Switzerland, regarding the purchase of a building to be assigned to the Consulate General; commissioned in 1917 by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with a mission to Bern, Switzerland, for the inspection of the French Embassy, ​​with a view to improvements to be made to the building; Inspector General of Civil Buildings and National Palaces; commissioned in 1918 by the Ministry of Public Instruction and Fine Arts with a mission to London, United Kingdom, to examine means of protection against enemy bombardments; apartment buildings and private mansions in Paris, monument to Th. Roussel 1 avenue de l'Observatoire in Paris 5th in 1907, in coll. with the sculptor Chamfeil; 1st Prize in the competition for the town hall and museum-library of Épernay in 1912, and execution; head of the Technical Architectural Services at the Ministry of Liberated Regions in 1918; Casa de Velázquez in Madrid, Spain, in 1920-25, destroyed during the Civil War; exhibited at the Salon of French Artists in Paris in 1896, A Capital Door, 3rd Class Medal, 1905, Study on Ancient Habitation; Study on Decoration, Italian Renaissance, Medal of Honor, and 1926, posthumously, Retrospective Exhibition – Ancient Architecture (restoration);