Charles-Auguste Questel

Saint Paul Church, Nîmes, 1835-1849

Library and Museum of Grenoble, 1872

Charles-Auguste Questel (1807-1888) was a French academic architect and teacher.

Biography

Born in Paris, Questel was a student of Félix Duban at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, and took a second-place Prix de Rome in 1844. He became a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1871.

Questel became the patron of his own atelier at the Ecole. Among his students were Henri Paul Nénot, Ernest Sanson, and the Swiss architect Alfred Friedrich Bluntschli; he was the father-in-law of French architect Honoré Daumet.

Questel died in Paris. Upon his death the atelier was taken over by Jean-Louis Pascal.

Works

His architectural work includes:

• the church of Saint-Paul in Nîmes built from 1835 through 1849
• restoration of the Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard, Vers-Pont-du-Gard, southern France, 1841-1846
• the Pradier Fountain, Nîmes, 1851
• the Saint Anne Hospital in Paris, 1867
• Préfecture de l'Isère, Grenoble, 1861-1866
• the Library and Museum of Grenoble, 1872

Sources

• Structurae page on Questel