Francisque Duret

Francisque Joseph Duret known as Francisque Duret is a French sculptor of the 19th century, born with Paris in 1804 and died in this same city in 1865.

Biography

Raise of the baron Bosio, Francisque Duret gains - jointly with Auguste Dumont - the Prix of Rome of sculpture in 1823 with a Bas-relief “ Douleur of Évandre over the body of his/her son Pallas ”. It leaves then for the Villa Médicis to Rome the following year and remains until in 1828 there.

Professor with the school of the Art schools of Paris of 1852 with 1863, he will be in particular the Master of the sculptors Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux and Henri Chapu.

Works

Paris

Museum of Louvre

  • Vintager improvising on a comic subject (To remember Naples) , statue, bronzes (counterpart)
  • Portrait of Louis Visconti (1856), bust in hermès, marble
  • Pêcheur dancing tarentelle the (1832), statue, bronzes

Others

  • Saint Michel embanking the demon , group, bronzes, Fontaine Saint-Michel, principal niche
  • Justice (1851), statue, stone, Bourse, place of the Stock Exchange, left angle of the principal frontage
  • Victoire , relief, Palais of Luxembourg, pediment of the frontage side court
  • a river , statue, Jardin of Luxembourg, Fontaine Médicis, on the right of the pediment
  • Archange Gabriel , statue, stone, church of the Madeleine, Péristyle, on the left of the monumental door
  • Venus with the bath , Gardens of the Fields-Élysées, fountain of the Ambassadors
  • Charity surrounded by the Faith and the Hope , statues, marble, surmounting three fountains, owes the church of the Trinity, place of Estienne-in Orves
  • the civil Force and the Military force , statues, bronzes, Saint-Louis church of the Invalids, tomb of Napoleon i, entry of the crypt
  • the warriors with horse with the Cirque of winter of Paris
  • François-Rene de Chateaubriand statue marble, (museum of Versailles)

See too

Sources

  • Pierre Kjellberg, the New guide of the statues of Paris , the Library of Arts, Paris, 1988.
  • Emmanuel Schwartz, Sculptures of the School of the Art schools of Paris. History, doctrines, catalog , 3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the Art schools, Paris, 2003.

External bonds

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