Jean-Pierre Cortot

Biography

As of the thirteen years age, he attends the workshop of the sculptor Charles Bridan. In parallel, he works for the sculptors Louis Boizot, the baron Lemot, Pierre Etienne Moitte, Claude Ramey or Philippe Roland for which he carries out reductions of famous ancient statues. Preceding Hard François, it gains in 1809 the Grand Prix of Sculpture of the École of the Art schools of Paris - or Price of Rome - with a figure in sculpture in the round Marius meditating on the ruins of Carthage .

Boarder of the Academy from France to Rome with the Villa Médicis of 1810 with 1813, it made there the meeting of the painter Dominique Ingres. Cortot then prolongs its five years stay, Vivant Denon having charged it into 1812 with carrying out a colossal statue of Napoleon 1^er . This work was abandoned with the fall of the Empire and replaced by a colossal statue of Louis XVIII .

Of return to Paris, Cortot will expose to the Living room until 1840. As of their first appearance - in 1819 - its marble sculptures Narcisse lying and Pandore will be worth the Grand Prix of the exposure to him. In 1822, the plaster of the Soldier of Marathon announcing the victory assoit definitively its reputation and the State orders the translation out of marble of it to him. Cortot will expose its works to the Parisian Living room until 1840.

Elected official member of the Institute in 1825, it succeeds Louis Dupaty as professor at the Royal School of the Art schools. He will be the professor in particular of the sculptor Pierre Louis Rouillard. Very appreciated at the time of the Restoration and the Monarchy of July, Cortot knows as from 1830 one period of intense activity. It will be promoted officer of the Légion of honor in 1841.

Its austere neo-classic style, heir at the same time to the traditional models of the end of the 18th century and the tradition gréco-Roman applies to many statues or mythological groups, religious or drawn from the modern history, often from very great dimensions. Its art was moderated however at the end of its life by attempts at more romantic expression.

Works

In Paris

With the Museum of Louvre

Daphnis and Chloé (Living room of 1827), group, marble
Soldier of Marathon announcing the victory (1834), statue, marble
Marie-Antoinette supported by the Religion , statuette (draft), terra cotta
According to Jean-Pierre Cortot, Thiébaut (founder), Immortality (1859), statue, bronzes

Others

the Apotheosis of Napoleon I^er or '' the Triumph of 1810 '' (ordering of 1833), colossal group, Triumphal arch of the Star
France, between Freedom and the Law and order, appealing with it the geniuses of the Trade, Agriculture, Peace, the War and the Eloquence (1841), pediment of the Palais Bourbon
Louis XVI concerts his defense with Malesherbes, Tronchet and of Sèze , low-relief, marble, decorating the Monument with Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1822), Palais of justice, room of the Lost Steps
According to the model designed by Louis Dupaty, Louis XIII (1825), equestrian Statue, Place of the Vosges, public garden Louis XIII
Town of Brest and Town of Rouen (of 1835 to 1838), statues, Place of the Harmony, north-western angle (side street Boissy-in Anglas)
Monument of Jean Casimir-Perier , Jean Casimir-Perier , statue, Justice , the Eloquence and Firmness , three low-reliefs, Cemetery of the Father-Lachaise

In province

Portrait of Jean Baptist Budes, count de Guebriant, Marshal of France (1602-1643) (1838), bust, plaster, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
Louis XV, king de France and of Navarre , statue in foot larger than natural, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
Pandora (1819), statue in foot, marble, Lyon, museum of the Art schools

According to Jean-Pierre Cortot, Print of Charles Gavard, Charles X in costume of sacring (1838), statue in foot larger than natural, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
According to Jean-Pierre Cortot, print of Charles Gavard, Louis XVI in costume of sacring (1838), statue in foot larger than natural, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
According to Jean-Pierre Cortot, Alexandre Theodore Brongniart, Melpomène (1808), statuette, hard porcelain, Sevres, National museum of Ceramics
According to Jean-Pierre Cortot, Alexandre Theodore Brongniart, Déidamie , statuette, hard porcelain, Sevres, national museum of Ceramics.

Pupils

Joseph Marius Ramus (1805-1888).

See too

Internal bonds

Dominique Ingres, Portrait of Jean-Pierre Cortot (1815), painting, Paris, museum of Louvre

External bonds

Jean-Pierre Cortot in Artcyclopedia

Sources

Pierre Kjellberg, the New guide of the statues of Paris , the Library of Arts, Paris, 1988.

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