Edmond Jean-baptiste Paulin (1848-1915) Terrace Villa Medici Rome 1870

Edmond Jean-Baptiste Paulin is a French architect born in Paris on September 10, 1848 and died in the same city on November 27, 1915. Biography[modifier | modify the code] After entering the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris in 1836, Edmond Paulin frequented the workshops of Louis-Hippolyte Lebas and Léon Ginain. He returned eight times in a row to try for the Prix de Rome. He managed to be second grand prix in 1874 and finally first grand prix de Rome in 1875 for a courthouse project for Paris. He was a resident at the Villa Medici from 1876 and 1879. On this occasion, he completed the restoration of the baths of Diocletian initiated by Emmanuel Brune. This project, published in 1890, marks a certain number of contemporary projects1. Back in France, he was appointed government architect in charge of the Ministry of the Interior, the Ministry of Public Works and the dome of the Invalides. He is also an architect for the City of Paris. He succeeded Julien Guadet at the head of an official workshop at the School of Fine Arts in 1895. He was elected in 1912 to the Academy of Fine Arts in chair no. 2 of the architecture section, succeeding Honoré Daumet . He is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery (63rd division) in Paris2. Terrace Villa Medici Rome signed E.Paulin 1870 sheet: 30 x 24.5 cm goes everywhere: 42.5 x 35.5 cm old mounting, sheet lined on thin paper