Joseph Chinard

Joseph Chinard is a French sculptor born on February 12th 1756 in Lyon and died on June 20th 1813.

Biography

It enters to the art school directed by Nonotte. Of 1784 to 1789, it with Rome, is persuaded to have to learn much.

It returns to Lyon in 1789 and adopts the ideas of the Révolution. It is on this occasion that it sets up in 1790 a colossal statue " The liberté" in the plain of Brotteaux, for the festival of the Federation. It goes back to Rome where it is shown to be the author of a lampoon anti-monk. It is locked up with the castle Saint-Angel during six weeks, and put out of cause, returns to Lyon where it carves a " Liberté" and a " Egalité" to replace the statue of Louis XIV on the pediment of the Town hall. Become suspect during the head office of Lyon by armed with Convention, it is locked up and slackened shortly after.

It is starting from 1800 qu ' it makes a series of bust noticed, in particular that of Juliette Récamier and Louis Charles Antoine Desaix. It is named professor of sculpture at the school of the Art schools of Lyon in 1807 He dies surrounded by honor in his house in edge of the Saone on the quay Pierre Scize in Lyon.

Its work

" the Republic " (1794)
Bust of Juliette Récamier (1805 or 1806), acquired by the Museum of the Art schools of Lyon in 1909.
Bust of Louis Charles Antoine Desaix
Bust of Madam de Verninac (1808).
" Persée delivering Andromède "
" Peace " (with Marseilles)
the " Police officer " (Triumphal arch of the Carousel of Louvres)
" Hébé pouring nectar " : this statue was found in 1918 by chance by Mr. Pillet, secondhand bookseller Lyons in the collection of the castle of Saint-Savin close to Bourgoin (Isere) and was put on sale at Lyon in 1921.
Two busts of Jean-Antoine Morand de Jouffrey, architect and town planner Lyonnais (1727-1794). One raises of a private collection of the family, the other is visible with the museum of Grenoble.

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