Pierre Lepautre or Le Pautre (1652 – 16 November 1716) was a French draughtsman, engraver and architect,[1] especially known as an ornemaniste, a prolific designer of ornament that presages the coming Rococo style.[2] He was the son of the designer and engraver Jean Lepautre and nephew of the architect Antoine Lepautre.[3] His appointment in 1699 as Dessinateur in the Bâtiments du Roi, the official design department of the French monarchy, headed by Jules Hardouin-Mansart and later Robert de Cotte in the declining years of Louis XIV, was signalled by the historian of the Rococo, Fiske Kimball, as a starting point in the genesis of the new style.[2]
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- Dee, Elaine Evans (1982). "Lepautre, Pierre", vol. 2, pp. 687–688, in Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects, edited by Adolf K. Placzek. London: Collier Macmillan. ISBN 9780029250006.
- Dee, Elaine Evans; Berger, Robert W.; Moureyre, Françoise de la (1996). "Le Pautre [Le Paultre; Lepautre]", vol. 19, pp. 210–213, in The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner. London: Macmillan. ISBN 9781884446009. Also at Oxford Art Online (subscription required).
- Kalnein, Wend von (1995). Architecture in France in the Eighteenth Century, translated by David Britt. New Haven: Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300060133.
- Kimball, Fiske (1943). The Creation of the Rococo. Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art. OCLC 2892380, 503738041. ISBN 9780486239897 (1980 Dover reprint as The Creation of the Rococo Decorative Style).
- Préaud, Maxime (2008). Inventaire du fonds français. Graveurs du XVIIe siècle. Tome 13. Pierre Lepautre. Paris: Bibliothèque nationale de France. ISBN 9782717723953.
- Souchal, François (1981). French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th centuries. Volume 2: The reign of Louis XIV. Illustrated Catalogue G–L. Oxford: Cassirer. ISBN 9780851810430.
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