Louis-Simon Boizot
Louis-Simon Boizot (1743–1809) was a French sculptor whose models for biscuit figures for
Biography
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Boizot was the son of Antoine Boizot, a designer at the
On his return to Paris he married Marguerite Virginie Guibert, daughter of the sculptor Honoré Guibert. He was admitted to the
In 1787, a royal commission from the
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From 1773 to 1800 Boizot directed the sculpture workshop at
Boizot also produced terracotta models for gilt-bronze clock cases, such as the allegorical figures of the "Avignon" clock in the Wallace Collection, London, cast and chased by Pierre Gouthière, 1777,[6] and, exceptionally, for gilt-bronze furniture mounts on French royal furniture, where the meticulously kept accounts of the Garde-Meuble permit his role as modeller to be identified. Such a case is provided by the pair of draped female caryatid figures, balancing baskets on their heads and holding flowers and grapes in their laps applied to the corners of a drop-front secretary (secrétaire à abattant) that was produced under the direction of the sculptor and entrepreneur Jean Hauré for Louis XVI's Cabinet-Intérieur at Compiègne, 1786-87. Among a host of craftsmen (Guillaume Beneman stamped the carcase) Boizot received 144 livres for his terracotta model, "de stil antique". (Watson 1966, I, no. 107).
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Boizot's models for seated reading and writing female figures, conventionally called L'Étude and La Philosophie (1780), originally destined to be executed in Sèvres biscuit porcelain,
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During the Revolution, he was a member of the Commission des Monuments in 1792. From 1805 he held a chair at the
References
- ^ Now in the foyer of the Odéon, in the foyer of the l’Odéon, Place du Palais-Royal.
- ISBN 978-2-87009-873-8. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
- ^ illustrated)
- ^ An example is in the Royal Collection.
- ^ The designation "Vase Boizot" was applied at Sèvres in the 1880s to an entirely different model [1] Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Wallace Collection F 258.
- ^ An example of Boizot's L'Étude, seated in an oil lamp of antique form, Sèvres, marked for 1786 Archived 2006-04-27 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Remond's drawing after Boizot's model is in Remond's business archive.
- Getty Museum, are said to be perhaps by Pierre-Philippe Thomire, nevertheless (illustrated).
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Further reading
- L.S. Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française au dix-huitième siècle (Paris) 1910.
- Francis J.B. Watson, The Wrightsman Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art), vol. I, no. 107 (the secrétaire à abattant), vol. II, p 563 (biography)
- (Getty Museum) Louis-Simon Boizot
External links
- Louis-Simon Boizot in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website