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{{Short description|13th century French artist}}
[[Image:Jehan de Chelles.JPG|thumb|250px|Statue of Jehan de Chelles, Parc du souvenir, [[Chelles, Seine-et-Marne|Chelles (Seine-et-Marne)]]]]

'''Jean''' (or '''Jehan''') '''de Chelles'''<ref>It is not clear which of the communes named [[Chelles (disambiguation)|Chelles]] was his birthplace.</ref> ({{IPA|fr|ʒɑ̃ də ʃɛl}}; working 1258–1265) was a master [[Stone mason|mason]] and [[sculptor]] who was one of the [[architect]]s at the Cathedral of [[Notre-Dame de Paris]]. On the exterior wall of the south transept a stone plaque is signed ''Johanne Magistro'' and dated February 1257, documenting the initiation of alterations to the transept and its portal. On his death in 1265, he was succeeded by Master [[Pierre de Montreuil]].

Jean de Chelles is credited with the south end of the [[transept]] of Nôtre Dame de Paris, the portal of the [[cloister]] and its rose window, and the portail Saint Etienne.

He is supposed to have worked with Pierre de Montreuil on the Cathedral of Saint Julien, [[Le Mans]]. A Jean de Chelles was working on the [[Palais du Louvre]] in 1265, under the direction of Raymond du Temple.<ref>Russell Sturgis, ''A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and Descriptive'', (Macmillan) 1901, ''s.v.'' "Chelles, Jean de".</ref> He is sometimes thought to have worked on the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, but the art historian, [[Robert Branner]], believes this to have actually been created by Thomas Cormont, who had previously worked at Amiens.<ref>Robert Branner, ''Saint Louis and the Court Style in Gothic Architecture'', (Zwemmer) 1965, p. 62 {{OCLC|776521482|616205}}.</ref>

The [[Pierre de Chelles]], ''Maître de l'Œuvre de la cathédrale de Paris'', who, with others, inspected the vaults and other work at [[Chartres cathedral]] in an official capacity, 9 September 1316, may have been a son or nephew, succeeding him at Notre-Dame de Paris.<ref>Sturgus 1901, ''s.v.'' "Chelles, Pierre de".</ref>

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