Pierre du Colombier
Pierre Poinçon de la Blanchardière (24 November 1889 – 1 August 1975), better known by his pen name Pierre du Colombier, was a French agricultural engineer, scholar and art historian.
Biography
From an old Dol-de-Bretagne military family (the Poinçon de la Blanchardière), Pierre de La Blanchardière was born in Coulommiers. He studied at the Collège Stanislas in Paris, then at the Special Military School of Saint-Cyr. For lack of affinity, he renounced the career of the arms.
He then joined the National Agronomic Institute, then the Water and Forestry Corps to conduct experiments in organic chemistry.
After the World War I, as a captain, he became a consulting engineer and then technical director of a patent firm in chemistry and industry, where he remained for almost forty years.
Between 1927 and the end of the 1960s, in parallel with his professional activities, he published under the pseudonym of Pierre du Colombier, inspired by the name of distant relatives, numerous works devoted to the history of art in France and Europe. His works include those on the Renaissance in France, French architecture in Germany in the eighteenth century, children in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, Italy, etc. He was the author of monographs on Albrecht Dürer, Jean Goujon, Nicolas Poussin, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Yves Brayer, Saint-Louis des Invalides, etc.
He contributed to various periodicals, including La Revue française, and the newspaper Comœdia.
Pierre du Colombier was also one of the translators of Goethe.
He died in Ballainvilliers.
Works
- Albert Durer (1927)
- Decamps (1928)
- L'Art français dans les cours rhénanes (1930)
- Tableau du XXe siècle. Les Arts (1933; with Roland-Manuel, Denœl and Steele)
- Le style Henri IV, Louis XIII (1941; with Roland-Manuel, Denœl and Steele)
- Histoire de l'Art (1945)
- L'Art de la Renaissance en France (1946)
- Yves Brayer (1948)
- De Venise à Rome (1953; illustrated by Yves Brayer)
- Sienne (1955)
- L'Architecture Française en Allemagne au XVIIIe Siècle (1955)
- Enchantement de Rome (1969)
External links
- 1889 births
- 1975 deaths
- 20th-century French non-fiction writers
- 20th-century French translators
- 20th-century pseudonymous writers
- Agricultural engineers
- Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur
- Collège Stanislas de Paris alumni
- École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr alumni
- French art historians
- French military personnel of World War I
- German–French translators
- People from Coulommiers
