Jacques II Androuet du Cerceau

Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, the younger[1] (1550 – 16 September 1614),[2] was a French architect.

[2] He worked at the Château de Charleval in the 1570s[2][3] and was responsible for military fortifications in Tours in the 1580s.

Androuet du Cerceau's claims were rejected in 1599, when the crown asserted its right to name as many royal architects as it wished.

Androuet du Cerceau is traditionally credited with the design of the western section of the Louvre's Grande Galerie (1595–1610), which extended along the right bank of the Seine as part of Henry IV's grand project to link the Louvre to the Tuileries Palace, while the eastern section, in a very different style, is traditionally credited to Louis Métezeau.

[6] The project was abruptly halted after the assassination of the king in 1610, but the Grande Galerie and the Gros Pavilion des Tuileries (begun in 1595, now known as the Pavillon de Flore), that formed the junction between the Grande Galerie and the south end of the Tuileries, were completed, but in the 1860s Androuet du Cerceau's work was entirely demolished and rebuilt in a different design by the Louvre's architect Hector Lefuel.