elected a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. With Thomas Leverton Donaldson and Charles Robert Cockerell, Hittorff was also a member of the committee formed in 1836 to determine whether the Elgin Marbles and other Greek statuary in the British Museum had originally been coloured; their conclusions were published in Transactions of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 1842. Principal works Hittorff's principal buildings are the church of St. Vincent de Paul in the basilica style, which was constructed in partnership with Jean-Baptiste Lepère, 1830–44, and the Cirque d'hiver, also in Paris, which opened as the Cirque Napoléon in 1852. Its 20-sided polygon around an oval central ring or stage surrounded by steeply tiered seating, is covered by a polygonal roof with no central post that could block the view. Hittorff also designed the Circus of the Empress, the Rotunda of the panoramas, the Gare du Nord (1861–63), many cafés and restaurants on the Champs-Élysées, the facades forming the circle round the Arc de Triomphe in Place de l'Étoile, as well as many embellishments in the Bois de Boulogne and other places. A project that failed to please Napoleon III was Hittorff's proposal for the Palais de l'Industrie to be constructed in 1853 to house the Exposition Universelle of 1855. On 27 March 1852, the Prince-Président— soon to declare himself Emperor— decreed that this exhibition would take place in a hall to rival the Crystal Palace of the 1851 Great Exhibition in London. Hittorff's solution, an immense hall of iron and glass, was too audacious. The commission passed to other architects, and a conservative compromise was effected. Hittorff was part of the team that designed the Grand Hôtel du Louvre in Paris, which opened in 1855 in time for the Exposition Universelle. He worked on this project with Alfred Armand (1805–88), Auguste Pellechet (1829-1903) and Charles Rohault de Fleury (1801–75). Notes See also List of works by Eugène Guillaume References Jacques Ignace Hittorff External links Die Sammlung Jakob Ignaz Hittorff in der Universitäts- und Stadtbibliothek Köln The Hittorff-Collection in the University and City Library of Cologne 1792 births Architects from Cologne 1867 deaths 19th-century French architects Burials at Montmartre Cemetery Recipients of the Royal Gold Medal Members of the Académie des beaux-arts École des Beaux-Arts alumni Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) Elgin Marbles