# Exterior view

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chalgrin-jean-franois-threse-rcb7100a17f769e/exterior-view-r1f007d4b8676ab>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [CHALGRIN, Jean-François-Thérese](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chalgrin-jean-franois-threse-rcb7100a17f769e>)
- Date: 1751-1800
- Technique: Photo

## Commentary

Chalgrin&#39;s church in the new residential quarter to the west of Paris quite simply appeared as a Greek temple, with nave and apse in the form of a paleo-Christian basilica. The architect placed the base of the pediment on the same level as the cornice of the two lateral masses. This façade - a typical temple frontispiece - rendered obsolete the standard design developed by François Mansart a century earlier; edifices with columned porticoes became common.

## Related artworks

- [Exterior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chalgrin-jean-franois-threse-rcb7100a17f769e/exterior-view-r0134a1de8ad54a>)
- [General view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chalgrin-jean-franois-threse-rcb7100a17f769e/general-view-r801a0974f299d2>)
- [Interior view](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chalgrin-jean-franois-threse-rcb7100a17f769e/interior-view-r316b7c0ea52e87>)
- [New staircase](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/chalgrin-jean-franois-threse-rcb7100a17f769e/new-staircase-rd67c56c331404f>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)