Charles-Louis Clérisseau (28 August 1721 – 9 January 1820) was a French architect, draughtsman,

antiquary An antiquarian or antiquary () is an aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past. More specifically, the term is used for those who study history with particular attention to ancient artifacts, archaeological and historic si ...

, and artist who became a leading authority on ancient Roman architecture and Roman ruins in Italy and France. With his influence extending to Russia, England, and the United States, and clients including

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and

Thomas Jefferson Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, architect, philosopher, and Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States from 18 ...

, Clérisseau played a key role in the genesis of

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during the second half of the 18th century.

Education; career in Rome

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Born in

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, Clérisseau was a pupil of the architect Germain Boffrand. In 1746, in his mid-twenties, he won a Premier

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

in the architectural competition to design ''Un grand hôtel'', or great mansion. The prize included a scholarship to study in Rome, and in 1749 Clérisseau became an official ''pensionnaire'' (resident) at the

French Academy in Rome The French Academy in Rome (french: Académie de France à Rome) is an Academy located in the Villa Medici, within the Villa Borghese, on the Pincio (Pincian Hill) in Rome, Italy. History The Academy was founded at the Palazzo Capranica in ...

, where his instructors included the painter of ruins

Giovanni Paolo Pannini Giovanni Paolo Panini or Pannini (17 June 1691 – 21 October 1765) was an Italian painter and architect who worked in Rome and is primarily known as one of the ''vedutisti'' ("view painters"). As a painter, Panini is best known for his vistas of ...

. In Rome he also befriended

Giovanni Battista Piranesi Giovanni Battista (or Giambattista) Piranesi (; also known as simply Piranesi; 4 October 1720 – 9 November 1778) was an Italian Classical archaeologist, architect, and artist, famous for his etchings of Rome and of fictitious and atmospheric ...

and

Claude-Joseph Vernet Claude-Joseph Vernet (14 August 17143 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter. Life and work Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet ...

, and in 1752 the three of them set out on a sketching tour of Hadrian's Villa at

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. Before beginning to draw, the three first had to cut and burn away the undergrowth, where lurked colonies of venomous snakes and scorpions. Ghezzi caricature of Clerisseau 1752 British Museum

Ghezzi caricature of Clerisseau 1752 British Museum

In 1753, Clérisseau's final months at the Academy were marred by a bitter dispute with its director,

Charles-Joseph Natoire Charles-Joseph Natoire (3 March 1700 – 23 August 1777) was a French painter in the Rococo manner, a pupil of François Lemoyne and director of the French Academy in Rome, 1751–1775. Considered during his lifetime the equal of François Bouch ...

. Clérisseau was for a time expelled, but was eventually allowed to return and complete his scholarship. In 1755 the Scottish architect

Robert Adam Robert Adam (3 July 17283 March 1792) was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his ...

arrived in

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, where he met Clérisseau, who accompanied him to Rome; there the ambitious Adam resolved, under thea of Clérisseau, to produce a volume for publication upon his return to Britain that would establish him as a serious architect. The project finally selected was a volume documenting the ruins of

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, on the Dalmatian coast. Over a period of five weeks in 1757 Adam sketched and supervised the documentation of the ruins, while Clérisseau produced perspectives, and two German draftsmen undertook the measured drawings. Most of the published engravings in Adam's ''Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro'' (1764) are believed to be the work of Clérisseau, though he received no credit. Clérisseau passed most of the next decades in

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. As it had done since the

High Renaissance In art history, the High Renaissance was a short period of the most exceptional artistic production in the Italian states, particularly Rome, capital of the Papal States, and in Florence, during the Italian Renaissance. Most art historians stat ...

, ancient Rome and modern Rome functioned as a cultural hub, the ruins of

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providing a school in themselves, if one had a knowledgeable guide. Clérisseau served as a mentor to a generation of young architectural students who (like Clérisseau) had won the prestigious

and came to study at the

. He also guided the developing taste for the Antique in young French and British artists and gentlemen amateurs on the

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. His skillful drawings of ancient architectural details, of real Roman ruins and imaginary ones, helped form the taste of young architects like

in the 1750s and his brother James Adam, in 1760-63. Clérisseau added to his income by providing architectural illustrations, sometimes in series, for young men on the

. On the first of December, 1763, in

San Luigi dei Francesi The Church of St. Louis of the French ( it, San Luigi dei Francesi, french: Saint Louis des Français, la, S. Ludovici Francorum de Urbe) is a Roman Catholic church in Rome, not far from Piazza Navona. The church is dedicated to the Virgin Mary ...

(Church of St. Louis of the French) in Rome, Clérisseau married Therèse, daughter of the sculptor Pierre de l'Estache. "Clérisseau was forty-two and Therése was presumably much younger, though her father was about seventy-five at the time." File:Charles-Louis Clérisseau, View of the Colosseum in Rome, between 1750 and 1755, Hermitage (cropped).jpg, View of the Colosseum in Rome (between 1750 and 1755), Hermitage

Return to Paris; dealings with Catherine the Great and Thomas Jefferson

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Upon his return to Paris in the summer of 1767, Clérisseau became a magnet for young neoclassical architects, like

François-Joseph Bélanger François-Joseph Bélanger (; 12 April 1744 – 1 May 1818) was a French architect and decorator working in the Neoclassic style. Life Born in Paris, Bélanger attended the Académie Royale d'Architecture (1764–1766) where he studied ...

, who themselves never visited Rome. Although they never met, and he never traveled to Russia, Clérisseau nonetheless attracted the attention of

, who in 1773 solicited from him plans for a house in a style ''à l'antique'' to be erected in her gardens at

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. Catherine was vexed when she received the plans, which were far more elaborate than she expected, "a grandiose Roman palace" described "as the

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set into Hadrian's Villa." There is no evidence that Clérisseau was ever paid for the rejected plans. Nevertheless, in 1778 Catherine again approached him, through an emissary, and arranged to purchase over a thousand drawings and artworks from him; this huge cache would ultimately find a home in the Hermitage. In 1780 she asked Clérisseau to design a triumphal arch to be built in Russia, but when the plans arrived she decided the gigantic project would be too large and expensive and abandoned it. Although his projects for Catherine never came to fruition, Clérisseau's drawings and designs were highly influential in the decoration of her apartments at

. In recognition of his artistic achievements and his efforts on her behalf, the empress made Clérisseau an honorary member of the

Imperial Academy of Arts The Russian Academy of Arts, informally known as the Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts, was an art academy in Saint Petersburg, founded in 1757 by the founder of the Imperial Moscow University Ivan Shuvalov under the name ''Academy of the Thr ...

and bestowed on him the title ''Premier Architecte de Sa Majestée Impériale''. For the Hôtel Grimod de La Reynière, built in Paris in 1775, Clérisseau and

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executed the first decorative scheme in Europe to be inspired by the recent archaeological discoveries at

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and

Herculanum Herculaneum (; Neapolitan and it, Ercolano) was an ancient town, located in the modern-day ''comune'' of Ercolano, Campania, Italy. Herculaneum was buried under volcanic ash and pumice in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. Like the n ...

. A set of eight painted ''

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s'' depicting sixteen scenes from the life of Achilles were sold in 1850 and are now in the collection of the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

in London. In 1785, Clérisseau was retained by

to produce designs for the

Virginia State Capitol The Virginia State Capitol is the seat of state government of the Commonwealth of Virginia, located in Richmond, the third capital city of the U.S. state of Virginia. (The first two were Jamestown and Williamsburg.) It houses the oldest elected ...

, based on the

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, the ancient Roman temple in

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. At the time, Jefferson was residing in Paris, serving as American Minister to France. Jefferson wrote that "it was a considerable time before I could find an architect whose taste had been formed on a study of ancient models of this art; the style of architecture in this capital arisbeing far from chaste." Clérisseau, he noted, "has studied 20 years in Rome, and has given proofs of his skill and taste by a publication of some antiquities of this country." Jefferson was referring to the first (and only) volume in Clérisseau's intended series ''Antiquités de la France,'' published in Paris in 1788 with the subtitle ''Monumens de Nismes''. The folio included detailed engravings of the

, which Jefferson praised as "one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful and precious morsel of architecture left us by antiquity." "Clérisseau's role in designing the Capitol has been much debated. Fiske Kimball argues persuasively that the building is essentially Jefferson's and that Clérisseau was merely a consultant."

Clérisseau in museums and exhibitions

Clérisseau created works on paper using a variety of media, often in combination, including pencil, chalk, ink, watercolor, and gouache. Many of his works were reproduced as etchings by engravers including Domenico Cunego (the series ''Views of Antique Buildings and Famous Ruins in Italy''),

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and Paolo Santini. In his lifetime, Clérisseau exhibited works at the

Paris Salon The Salon (french: Salon), or rarely Paris Salon (French: ''Salon de Paris'' ), beginning in 1667 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. Between 1748 and 1890 it was arguably the greatest annual or biennial ar ...

in 1773, 1775, 1883, and 1808. The largest cache of Clérisseau's work is in the collection of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg. An exhibition of these works was presented in 1995 at the Louvre in Paris, and in 1996 at the Hermitage; an illustrated catalogue with notes and essays was published in 1995 in Paris by Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux. Large groups of works by of Clérisseau are also conserved at

Sir John Soane's Museum Sir John Soane's Museum is a house museum, located next to Lincoln's Inn Fields in Holborn, London, which was formerly the home of neo-classical architect, John Soane. It holds many drawings and architectural models of Soane's projects, and ...

in London (four drawings and twenty-two works in gouache can be seen at the museum's web site) and at the

Fitzwilliam Museum The Fitzwilliam Museum is the art and antiquities museum of the University of Cambridge. It is located on Trumpington Street opposite Fitzwilliam Street in central Cambridge. It was founded in 1816 under the will of Richard FitzWilliam, 7th V ...

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. Works by Clérisseau are also in the collections of the

Louvre The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the '' Venus de Milo''. A central ...

, the

Musée Cantini The Musée Cantini is a museum in Marseilles that has been open to the public since 1936. The museum specializes in modern art, especially paintings from the first half of the twentieth century. The building The musée Cantini building was buil ...

in Marseille, the

, the

Royal Collection Trust The Royal Collection of the British royal family is the largest private art collection in the world. Spread among 13 occupied and historic royal residences in the United Kingdom, the collection is owned by King Charles III and overseen by the ...

, the

Whitworth Art Gallery The Whitworth is an art gallery in Manchester, England, containing about 55,000 items in its collection. The gallery is located in Whitworth Park and is part of the University of Manchester. In 2015, the Whitworth reopened after it was transfo ...

at the

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, the

Albertina The Albertina is a museum in the Innere Stadt (First District) of Vienna, Austria. It houses one of the largest and most important print rooms in the world with approximately 65,000 drawings and approximately 1 million old master prints, as well ...

in Vienna, the

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, the

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, the

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...

, the

Fleming Museum of Art The Fleming Museum of Art is a museum of art and anthropology at the University of Vermont in Burlington. The museum's collection includes some 25,000 objects from a wide variety of eras and places. Until 2014, the museum was known as the Robert ...

at the

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, the

Blanton Museum The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art (often referred to as the Blanton or the BMA) at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the largest university art museums in the U.S. with 189,340 square feet devoted to temporary exhibitions, permanent coll ...

in Austin, the

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in San Marino, California, and the

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in San Francisco.

Clérisseau at auction

In 2019, a work by Clérisseau described as "Roman ruins with oriental staffage," was auctioned at Sotheby's for $32,500. In 2018, a work by Clérisseau described as "View of the interior of an antique Roman bath," signed, was auctioned at Sotheby's for £11,875. In 2016, a work by Clérisseau described as "A classical capriccio with figures by a great arch," signed and dated 1786, was auctioned at Christie's for £13,750 In 2015, a lot of two works by Clérisseau described as "The Arch of Titus, Rome; and The Forum of Nerva, Rome," both signed, was auctioned at Christie's for £20,000. In 2014, a lot of two works by Clérisseau described as "Ancient gate at Cumae near Naples; Grotto of Egeria on the Via Appia," both signed and dated 1769, was auctioned at Sotheby's for $20,000. In 2013, a work by Clérisseau described as "Capriccio of roman ruins, with figures in the foreground," signed, was auctioned at Sotheby's for £20,000. Also in 2013, a work by Clérisseau described as "A capriccio of Classical ruins with peasants in the foreground," signed and dated 1773, was auctioned at Sotheby's for $40,635. In 2012, a lot of two works by Clérisseau described as "Two architectural capricci with peasants, musicians and other figures frolicking among classical ruins," signed and dated 1773 and 1774, was auctioned at Christie's for $74,500. At the same auction, another lot of two works by Clérisseau described as "Architectural capriccio; and The Tomb of the Curiatii at Albano," the first signed and dated 1781, the second signed, was auctioned at Christie's for $11,250. In 2010, a lot of two works by Clérisseau described as "Interiors of a Roman Basilica with Figures," both signed and dated 1769, was auctioned at Christie's for £51,650.

Gallery (chronological)

File:Pont-de-gard-clerisseau-1804 (cropped).jpg, ''Vue générale du

Pont du Gard The Pont du Gard is an ancient Roman aqueduct bridge built in the first century AD to carry water over to the Roman colony of ''Nemausus'' ( Nîmes). It crosses the river Gardon near the town of Vers-Pont-du-Gard in southern France. The Po ...

'' (1804) from the boo
''Antiquités de la France''
(1788) File:Clérisseau, Charles-Louis, Ornamentation in the Grotesque Style, between 1750 and 1755, Hermitage.jpg, Ornamentation in the Grotesque Style (between 1750 and 1755), Hermitage File:Clérisseau, Charles-Louis, Ornamentation in the Grotesque Style 2, between 1750 and 1755, Hermitage.jpg, Ornamentation in the Grotesque Style (between 1750 and 1755), Hermitage File:Clérisseau, Ruins of a Roman Bath, 1763, Royal Collection Trust.jpg, Ruins of a Roman Bath, 1763,

File:Clérisseau, Ruins of an ancient bath, 1764, Fleming Museum, University of Vermont.jpg, Ruins of an ancient bath, 1764,

File:Clerisseauanienetivoli69.jpg, Falls of the Aniene at Tivoli (1769),

File:Charles-louis clerisseau--interior of a roman basilica with figures--2--1769--christies.jpg, Interior of a Roman basilica with figures (1769), private collection. File:Charles-louis clerisseau--interior of a roman basilica with figures--1--1769--christies.jpg, Interior of a Roman basilica with figures (1769), private collection. File:Charles-Louis Clérisseau, GROTTO OF EGERIA ON THE VIA APPIA, 1769, private collection.jpg, Grotto of Egeria on the Via Appia (1769), private collection File:Charles-Louis Clérisseau, Ancient Gate at Cumae near Naples, 1769, private collection.jpg, Ancient gate at Cumae near Naples (1769), private collection File:Clérisseau, Charles-Louis, Interior Decoration for useum of Catherine the Great, before 1773, Hermitage.jpg, Interior decoration for museum of

(before 1773), Hermitage File:Clerisseau, Plan of Antique House of Catherine the Great, 1773, Hermitage.jpg, Plan of Antique House of

(1773), Hermitage File:Clerisseau--architectural capriccio with peasants--1773--christies.jpg, Architectural capriccio with peasants (1773), private collection. File:Charles-Louis Clérisseau, A Capriccio of Roman Ruins with Peasants in the Foreground, 1773, private collection.jpg, Capriccio of Roman ruins with peasants in the foreground (1773), private collection File:Clerisseau--architectural capriccio with peasants--1774--christies.jpg, Architectural capriccio with peasants (1774), private collection. File:Clérisseau, Achilles panel, Victoria and Albert Museum.jpg, Panel depicting an incident from the life of Achilles, 1770s,

File:Clérisseau, Achilles panel detail, Victoria and Albert Museum.jpg, Detail from a panel depicting an incident from the life of Achilles, 1770s,

File:Clerisseau--Capriccio of a Temple--Piraneseum.jpg, Capriccio of a temple (1781), private collection File:Charles-Louis Clérisseau, An Overall Plan for the Road from St Petersburg to Moscow, 1781, Hermitage.jpg, Project of a Triumphal Arch for

(1781), Hermitage File:Clerisseau--Architectural fantasy--1782--Hermitage.jpg, Architectural fantasy (1782), Hermitage File:Clerisseau--a classical capriccio with figures by a great arch--1786--christies.jpg, Capriccio with figures by a great arch (1786), private collection. File:Charles-Louis Clérisseau, Temple de Diane a Nîmes, etching by Poulleau from the book Antiquités de la France, 1788.jpg, Ruins of the Temple of Diana at Nîmes, etching by Poulleau from ''Antiquités de la France'' (1788) File:Clerisseau--oval--Arch of the Argentieri in Rome with figures in the foreground--1789--christies.jpg, Arch of the Argentieri in Rome with figures in foreground (1789), private collection. File:Domenico Cunego after Charles-Louis Clérisseau, etching of the Amphitheatre of Capua--before 1794--V&A.jpg, Domenico Cunego after Clérisseau, etching of the Amphitheatre of Capua (before 1794),

File:Domenico Cunego after Charles-Louis Clérisseau, etching of the Amphitheatre of Benventum--V&A.jpg, Domenico Cunego after Clérisseau, etching of the Amphitheatre of Benventum (before 1794),

Gallery (undated works)

File:Clerisseau, Allegory of Music, n.d., Louvre.jpg, Allegory of Music, n.d.,

File:Clerisseau, Baths in ruins, n.d., Louvre.jpg, Baths in ruins, n.d.,

File:Clérisseau, Capriccio with Classical Ruins, n.d., The Whitworth, University of Manchester.jpg, Capriccio with Classical ruins, n.d.,

File:Clerisseau--Architectural Fantasy with Roman Ruins--Met.jpg, Architectural fantasy with Roman ruins, n.d.,

File:Clerisseau--arch of constantine--legion of honor--san francisco.jpg, Arch of Constantine, n.d.,

, San Francisco File:Clerisseau--Ruins of a Roman arch, n.d., watercolor on paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.jpg, Ruins of a Roman arch, n.d.,

File:Clérisseau, Roman Ruins, nd, Royal Collection Trust.jpg, Roman ruins, n.d.,

File:Clerisseau--building on the banks of the Tiber--albertina--vienna (cropped).jpg, Building on the banks of the Tiber, n.d.,

, Vienna File:Clerisseau--Landscape with a path, garden wall and column--albertina--vienna.jpg, Landscape with a path, garden wall and column, n.d.,

, Vienna File:Clerisseau--Staircase of Castel Gandolfo near Rome--watercolor--albertina--vienna.jpg, Staircase of Castel Gandolfo near Rome, n.d.,

, Vienna File:Clerisseau--Tomb of the Curiatii and Horatii on the Appian Way--Piraneseum.jpg, Tomb of the Curiatii and Horatii on the Appian Way, n.d., private collection File:Clerisseau--Anfiteatro Flavio a Pozzuoli--ND--liveauctioneers.jpg, Flavian Amphitheater in Pozzuoli, n.d., private collection. File:Clerisseau--forum of nerva in Rome--ND--christies.jpg, Forum of Nerva in Rome, n.d., private collection. File:Clerisseau--arch of titus rome--nd--christies.jpg, Arch of Titus in Rome, n.d., private collection. File:Clerissea--femmes a la fontaine pres dun arc en ruines--ND--christies.jpg, Women at a fountain amid ruins, n.d., private collection. File:Clerisseau--Architectural fantasy--nd--Christies.jpg, Architectural fantasy, n.d., private collection. File:Charles-Louis Clérisseau, Capriccio of Roman Ruins with Figures in the Foregound, undated, private collection.jpg, Capriccio of Roman ruins with figures in the foregound, n.d., private collection File:Charles-Louis Clérisseau, ROMAN RUINS WITH ORIENTAL STAFFAGE, undated, private collection.jpg, Roman ruins with oriental staffage, n.d., private collection File:Charles-Louis Clérisseau, VIEW OF THE INTERIOR OF AN ANTIQUE ROMAN BATH, undated, private collection.jpg, View of the interior of an antique Roman bath, n.d., private collection File:Charles-Louis Clérisseau, Caprice architectural animé de personnages.jpg, Figures in a capriccio, n.d., private collection

References

Sources

*Adam, Robert
''Ruins of the Palace of the Emperor Diocletian at Spalatro in Dalmatia''
London: Printed for the Author, 1764. *Bellier de La Chavignerie, Émile; Auvray, Louis
"Clérisseau (Charles-Louis)
entry in ''Dictionnaire général des artistes de l'École française depuis l'origine des arts du dessin jusqu'à nos jours: architectes, peintres, sculpteurs, graveurs et lithographes''. Paris: 1882-1885, vol. I, p. 465. *''Charles-Louis Clérisseau (1721-1820): Dessins du Musée de l'Ermitage, Saint-Pétersbourg'' xposition, Musée du Louvre, du 21 Septembre au 18 Décembre 1995 Paris: Editions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1995. *Clérisseau, Charles-Louis (1778)
''Antiquités de la France, Prèmiere partie: Monumens de Nismes''
Paris: P.D. Pièrres. * *Eustace, Katherine
"Robert Adam, Charles-Louis Clérisseau, Michael Rysbrack and the Hopetoun Chimneypiece"
''The Burlington Magazine'', Vol. 139, No. 1136 (Nov., 1997), pp. 743-752. * *Hafertepe, Kenneth
"An Inquiry into Thomas Jefferson's Ideas of Beauty"
''Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians'', Vol. 59, No. 2 (June, 2000), pp. 216-231. *Hopkinson, Martin
"Cunego's Engravings after Gavin Hamilton"
''Print Quarterly'', Vol. 26, No. 4 (Dec 2009), pp. 364-369. *Kimball, Fiske. "Thomas Jefferson and the First Monument of the Classical Revival in America," ''Journal of the American Institute of Architects'', Sept., Oct., and Nov. 1915. *Kimball, Fiske. ''Thomas Jefferson, Architect'', Boston, 1916. * Includes as Appendix C, pp. 221-224, a list of signed and dated works by Clérisseau. *McCormick, Thomas, J
"An Unknown Collection of Drawings by Charles-Louis Clérisseau"
''Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians'', Vol. 22, No. 3 (Oct., 1963), pp. 119-126. *Neverov, Oleg
"Catherine the Great: Public and Private Collector"
''The British Art Journal'', Vol. 2, No. 2, (Winter 2000/2001), pp. 121-126. *O'Brien, Charles H
"New Light on the Mouton-Natoire Case (1768): Freedom of Conscience and the Role of the Jansenists"
''Journal of Church and State'', Vol. 27, No. 1 (Winter 1985), pp. 65-82. *Skinner, Basil
"Nineteen Drawings by C. L. Clérisseau"
''The Burlington Magazine'', vol. 105, issue 721, April 1963, pp. 160-162. *Speler, Ralf-Torsten. ''Clérisseau, V. Erdmannsdorff, and Jefferson: The Dessau-Woerlitz Early Classicist Period and German-American Relations in Art and Culture in the Age of Enlightenment''. Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, 1989.

External links

Works by Clérisseau at the Hermitage
��almost 200 items with images and catalogue notes (a small percentage of the total collection)
Clérisseau page
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Piraneseum

Born on this Day: Charles-Louis Clérisseau
��essay about the artist illustrated with works from the

, including a portrait by

Angelika Kauffmann Maria Anna Angelika Kauffmann ( ; 30 October 1741 – 5 November 1807), usually known in English as Angelica Kauffman, was a Swiss people, Swiss Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter who had a successful career in London and Rome. Remembered prima ...

thought to depict Clérisseau.
Sir John Soane's Museum Collection Online
��a search for "Clérisseau" finds four drawings and twenty-two works in gouache by the artist. {{DEFAULTSORT:Clerisseau, Charles-Louis 1721 births 1820 deaths Artists from Paris 18th-century French architects French neoclassical architects French neoclassical painters French antiquarians French draughtsmen French male non-fiction writers Members of the Imperial Academy of Arts