Maison pompéienne

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The Maison pompéienne ('Pompeian house' ), sometimes called the Palais pompéien 'Pompeian palace' was the hôtel particulier of Prince Napoléon-Jérôme in Paris in the style of the Villa of Diomedes near Pompeii. It was located at 16-18 avenue Montaigne from 1860 to 1891.

It was built in 1856–1860 on the former site of the Pavillon des Beaux-Arts of the Exposition Universelle of 1855. As president of the Exposition, Jérôme had bought the land for it. The architects included Jacques-Ignace Hittorff, , and finally Alfred-Nicolas Normand.Sara Betzer, "Chassériau's Pompeii in Nineteenth-Century Paris" in Shelley Hales, Joanna Paul, Pompeii in the Public Imagination from Its Rediscovery to Today, 2011, , pp. 120ff Camille-Auguste Gastine created the decorative schemes in the Pompeian style.Théophile Gautier, Arsène Houssaye, Charles Coligny, Le palais pompéien de l'avenue Montaigne : études sur la maison gréco-romaine, ancienne résidence du prince Napoléon, Paris, Palais pompéien, 1866 Its interior paintings included works by Sébastien Cornu and Jean-Léon Gérôme. It is considered a good example of Neo-Grec style.James Stevens Curl, Susan Wilson, Oxford Dictionary of Architecture, 3rd ed., 2016 , s.v. Néo-Grec

When Prince Napoléon went into exile, he sold it to investors, who opened it to the public during the Exposition Universelle of 1867. It was abandoned during the Siege of 1871 and was in poor condition by 1889.Katharine T. von Stackelberg, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, "Architectural Reception and the Neo-Antique" in Katharine T. von Stackelberg, Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, eds, Housing the New Romans: Architectural Reception and Classical Style in the Modern World, 2017, It was demolished in 1891, and the Hôtel Porgès was built on the site.

Maison pompéienne

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