Jacques-Edme Dumont

See also: Dumont

Jacques-Edme Dumont , wire of Edme Dumont, born in Paris in 1761 and died downtown this same in 1844 is a French sculptor.

Biography

Jacques-Edme Dumont works initially in the workshop of Pajou from 1775 before always entering since 1777 to the royal École of the pupils protected the direction from this same sculptor. Obtaining the Prime Minister Price of sculpture in 1788, it leaves for Rome the same year. After a stay in Naples, it returns to France in 1793.

It carried out a great number of groups, statues and low-reliefs for the public monuments, inter alia: the General Marceau , with the Palate of Luxembourg, Pichegru , for the town of Alpine laburnum. It had carried out in 1819 the statue of Malesherbes for the office of Louis XVIII. This statue will be employed again in the monument which the architect Hippolyte Lebas for the Law courts of Paris will design and which will be inaugurated in December 1822.

Works

  • Hébé pouring nectar with Jupiter , group, terra cotta, Paris, Museum of Louvre: Living room of the Elysium of 1797, n° 107
  • the Religion , group (draft for a monument), terra cotta, Paris, museum of Louvre
  • the Religion , (draft for a project of tomb), terra cotta, Paris, museum of Louvre
  • François Severin Marceau Desgraviers says the Marceau general (1769 - 1796) , statuette (model for the statue of the palate of Luxembourg ordered in 1804), terra cotta, Paris, museum of Louvre
  • François Severin Marceau Desgraviers says the general Marceau (1769 - 1796) , statuette (draft for the statue of the palate of Luxembourg ordered in 1804), terra cotta, Paris, museum of Louvre
  • Portrait of François Severin Marceau Desgraviers say the Marceau general (1769 - 1796) (1799 - 1800), bust in hermès, terra cotta, Paris, museum of Louvre: Living room of 1800, n° 427
  • Project of fountain , group (draft), terra cotta, Paris, museum of Louvre
  • Portrait of Mrs Dumont, born Marie-Francoise Berthault, mother of the artist (1727 - 1800) '1799), bust, plaster, Paris, museum of Louvre: Living room of 1799, n° 419
  • Christian Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, minister of state (1721 - 1794) (1819), statue, marble, Paris, law courts, room of the Lost Steps: Living room of 1819, n° 1281
  • Christian Guillaume de Lamoignon de Malesherbes, minister of state (1721 - 1794) (before 1819), model statue, plaster, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon

Sources

  • Catalog of exposure, Skulptur aus dem Louvre. Neo-classic French sculptures. 1760 - 1830 , Paris, museum of Louvre, May 23rd - September 3rd, 1990, p. 316
  • Simone Hoog, (foreword of Jean-Pierre Babelon, with the collaboration of Roland Brossard), National museum of Versailles. Sculptures. I The museum , Meeting of the national museums, Paris, 1993
  • Genevieve Bresc-Bautier, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre (under the direction of Jean-Rene Gaborit, with the collaboration of Jean-Charles Agboton, Helene Grollemund, Michele Lafabrie, Beatrice Tupinier-Barillon), Museum of Louvre. department of the sculptures of the Middle Ages, the Rebirth and modern times. French sculpture II. Rebirth and modern times. vol. 1 Adam - Gois , Editions of the Meeting of the national museums, Paris, 1998

External bonds

  • biographical Elements

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