Charles Percier Bassant made a career in technology at a time when the terms of that career were still being set.
The record lists Charles Percier Bassant as French architect (1764–1838).
Charles Percier Bassant was born at Paris in 1764. His recorded nationality is France. He was educated at Beaux-Arts de Paris.
The eighteenth century organised knowledge into academies, expeditions and collections, and turned patronage into something closer to a profession.
The record gives his occupations as architect, designer and visual artist.
His principal work is arc de triomphe du Carrousel. Technical work compounds - each layer makes the next one cheaper to attempt.
His recorded fields of work are architecture, interior and visual arts.
The honours are a fair index of how the work was received - Knight of the Legion of Honour (1819) and Officer of the Legion of Honour (1928).
Working from France shaped what was possible - the audiences within reach, the institutions that would have him, the language the work first appeared in.
Charles Percier Bassant died in 1838 at the age of 74. The work outlived the arguments around it.
Achievements
- Knight of the Legion of Honour — 1819
- Officer of the Legion of Honour — 1928
- Notable work: arc de triomphe du Carrousel
- Educated at Beaux-Arts de Paris
- Worked as architect, designer and visual artist
