# Demolition of L'Église des Saints Innocents, Paris [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MACHY, Pierre-Antoine de]() - Date: 1751-1800 - Technique: Oil on panel, 49 x 63 cm ## Commentary Demolition of L'Église des Saints Innocents, Paris c. 1787 Oil on panel, 49 x 63 cm Private collection L'Église des Saints Innocents \(Church of the Holy Innocents\) was located in the cemetery of the same name on the rue Saint-Denis in Paris In 1786, a Parliamentary public health order decreed that the cemetery and church be destroyed to make way for a marketplace. De Machy painted numerous paintings and drawings of the church both before and during its destruction, the present painting is probably one of the three which were exhibited in the Salon of 1787. ## Related artworks - [Clearing the Area in front of the Louvre Colonnade]() - [Clearing the Area in front of the Louvre Colonnade]() - [Fantastical Architectural Study with Figures]() - [Official Laying of the Cornerstone of the New Church of Sainte-Geneviève]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()