Article: Raymond, Jean-Arnaud

Raymond, Jean-Arnaud (1742–1811). French architect. A pupil of J. -F. Blondel and Soufflot , he supervised the erection of some of Ledoux 's Barrières around Paris from 1785, and designed the hôtel and gallery for Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755–1842), the celebrated portrait-painter (1784–6). He became architect to the Louvre, Paris, in 1798, rendering parts of it suitably magnificent to provide a setting for the treasures looted by ...

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