Discover architect, landscape gardener Jean de la Vallée

Qualifications: architect, landscape gardener
surveyor of the royal manufactures (Jacobsson 2021, p. 246-250)

Nationality/school: French, Swedish

Born: Paris 1620/1624
1620 or 1624, probably in Paris

Deceased: Stockholm (city) 1696
1696-03-09; buried in Katarina Kyrka

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Simon de la Vallée and Margaretha de Villars; father of Christopher and Magnus de la Valée

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

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Den Haag (stad) 1633 - 1637
lives with his family in The Hague
Stockholm (stad) 1637 - 1646
travels in 1637 with his family to Stockholm
Noordelijke Nederlanden (hist. regio) 1646 - 1649
with a royal stipend study tour to the Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany
Parijs 1646 - 1649
with a royal stipend study tour to the Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany
Italië 1646 - 1649
with a royal sipend study tour to the Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany
Neurenberg 1646 - 1649
with a royal sipend study tour to the Netherlands, France, Italy, Germany; on the way back to Sweden he visits a.o. Nürnberg
Stockholm (stad) 1649 - 1696
in 1649 in royal service, but also commissions from the Swedish nobility; 1651-80 royal architect, supervisor of all public buildings; 1662 supervisor of the Swedish manufactories; 1666 member of the Board of Stockholm; 1671 burgomaster of Stockholm; 1680 urban planning for the Slussen area; 1686 new urban plan and regulations for the Norrmalm area (after the great fire)
Eskilstuna 1658
from 1658 onwards plans for the lay-out and the buildings of the new town Carl Gustaf's Stad (now Eskilstuna)
Skoklosters slott (Håbo) 1660 - 1670
in the 1660s plans for the baroque gardens of Skokloster Castle

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Connections with other artists

Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Vallée, Simon de la
while on study tour, in Paris student of his grandfather Marin de la Vallée and Christian Garnard

Literature

Hahr 1905 , p. 19-22, 26
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 22 (1928), p. 471-472
Axel-Nilsson 1950 , p. 23, 81, 86-89, 179-180, 203, 217, 237, 245, 347-348, 362, 401
Saur 1992- , vol. 83 (2014), p. 318

R. Josephson, Tessin i Danmark, Stockholm 1924, p. 23, 69, 161
T.O. Nordberg, De la Vallée. En arkitektfamilj i Frankrike, Holland och Sverige, Stockholm 1970
J. Römelingh, Een rondgang langs Zweedse archieven. Een onderzoek naar archivalia inzake de betrekkingen tussen Nederland en Zweden 1520-1920 (RGP kleine serie 59), 's- Gravenhage 1986, p. 179, 256, 284, 341
J. Ellehag, Jean de la Vallée, Lund 2003
H. Jacobsson, 'Dutch experts in the early modern Swedish state. Employment strategies and knowledge building 1560-1670', Doctoral Thesis in History, Stockholm University, 2021, esp. p. 246-250

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PDO/Foreign Artists

PDO-map ligt op: Vallée, Simon & Jean de la

Project: Gerson Digital : Sweden
Gerson Digital : France

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Creation date: 2004-02-18; Last modified date: 2023-05-16

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