Charles-François Lebœuf
Charles-François Lebœuf
Charles-François Lebœuf, called Nanteuil (9 August 1792 – 1 November 1865) was a French
sculptor.[1]
Career
Born in Paris, he studied with
Musée du Louvre. This work later inspired Auguste Clésinger's Woman Bitten by a Snake (1847, Musée d'Orsay).[1]
Nanteuil received many commissions from the French government, including one for a group entitled Commerce and Industry at the
Second Empire).[1]
Nanteuil's most important
Nanteuil died in Paris.[1]
List of works
Musée du Louvre
Notre-Dame-de-Lorette
General Desaix, 1848, Place de Jaude in Clermont-Ferrand
- Agis, Dying on His Own Arms (1817), statue, plaster, Paris, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
- Dying Eurydice (1822), statue, marble, Paris, Musée du Louvre[2]
- Portrait of the painter Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1827), bust, marble, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon : Salon of 1827, number 1163
- Portrait of the painter Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1828), bust, marble, Paris, Musée du Louvre
- Pediment sculpture of the Church Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Paris(1830)
- Jardin des Tuileries, grand bassin rond, le grand carré[3]
- 3 Panthéon de Paris(1837) : The Apotheosis of the heroes who have died for the fatherland, framed by The Sciences and the Arts and The Magistracy.
- Portrait of duc de Bourgogne(1433 - 1477) (1838), bust, plaster, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- Portrait of Charlemagne, empereur d'Occident (742 - 814) (1840), larger-than-life size standing statue, marble, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- Portrait of Mathieu Molé, chancellor of France (1584 - 1656) (1840), larger-than-life size standing statue, plaster, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, man of letters (1689 - 1755) (1840), statue, plaster, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- Death of Orestes(1840), drawing, brown lead, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques
- Portrait of Henri LXI, prince de Général de Brigadein the service of France (1784 - 1813) (1841), bust, plaster, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- General Desaix (1848), bronze, Clermont-Ferrand, Place de Jaude
- Glorification of Church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, circa 1850
- Portrait of Général de Brigade(1808 - 1854) (1858), bust, marble, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- Dying Eurydice (1862), statue (replica), bronze, 2nd arrondissement of Paris, Galerie Vivienne
- The town of Beauvais and the town of Lille (1865), stone statues on the facade of the Gare du Nord, Paris
- King Charles X, colossal statue, stone, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- Portrait of Louis-Philippe I, king of the French (1773 - 1830), bust, plaster, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- Portrait of Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald, Duke of Tarente, Maréchal de l'Empire(1765 - 1840), larger-than-life size standing statue, marble, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
References
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Lemaistre 1998.
- ^ Eurydice mourante at the Louvre website.
- ^ Alexandre combattant Archived January 18, 2008, at the Wayback Machine at insecula.com
Sources
- Ehrard, Antoinette (2001). "Autour de la statue de Desaix par Nanteuil" in Annales historiques de la Révolution française (in French). issue 324 "Numéro spécial Louis Charles Antoine Desaix. Officier du roi, Général de la République" (April–June 2001) .
- Hoog, Simone (1993). Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I - Le musée, (preface by Jean-Pierre Babelon, with the collaboration of Roland Brossard) (in French). Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris.
- Lemaistre, Isabelle (1998). "Nanteuil [Leboeuf], Charles-François" in Turner 1998, vol. 22, p. 465.
- Turner, Jane, editor (1998). ISBN 978-1-884446-00-9.
Other sources
- at WorldCat.
External links
Media related to Charles-François Lebœuf at Wikimedia Commons
