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3 unusual facts about Charles Percier


Charles Percier

These engravings spread their style beyond the Empire; they helped put a French stamp on the English Regency style and influenced the connoisseur-designer, Henry Hope.

They also worked at Josephine's Château de Malmaison, at the Château de Montgobert for Pauline Bonaparte, and did alterations and decorations for former Bourbon palaces or castles at Compiègne, Saint-Cloud, and Fontainebleau.

Hamilton Palace

According to Professor Tait in Burlington Magazine July 1983 the duke also sought alternative designs for the 1840s reconstruction by Charles Percier, Pierre François Léonard Fontaine and Giacomo Quarenghi.



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