Pierre Cartellier
Jacques Marie Noël Frémy (1782-1867)
Pierre Cartellier (2 December 1757 – 12 June 1831) was a French sculptor.
Biography
Born in
Panthéon
.
At a time in
cour d'honneur of Versailles. At the time of his death only the horse had been cast. His son-in-law Louis Petitot
completed it with the king's figure.
Cartellier sculpted the model for the bronze statue of
Napoléon Bonaparte by Jacques-Louis David, can be seen at the Church of Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul in Rueil-Malmaison
.
Cartellier was made a member of
Legion of Honor (1808) and decorated with the Order of St-Michel (1824). He was elected an associated member of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands in 1808.[2] He taught at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His daughter married the painter Jean-François Heim
but she died at the age of nineteen.
Pierre Cartellier died in Paris in 1831 and was interred there in the Père Lachaise Cemetery with his wife and daughter.
Principal works
The following were singled out by Landon 1833:
- Aristide, placed in the Chambre des Pairs. Aristides was an Athenian soldier and statesman.
- Jeunes filles de Sparte dansant autour du statue de Diane ("Young girls of Sparta dancing before the altar of Diana"), bas-relief for the Palais du Louvre; in situ.
- La Gloire distribuant des couronnes ("Fame distributing crowns"), bas-relief for the colonnade of the Louvre; in situ.
- Capitulation d'Ulm, bas-relief for the Tuileries; in situ.
- General Valhubert, for the Pont de la Concorde, Paris, 1815; in the Jardin de l'Eveché, Avranches, Normandy) (illustration, above right)
- Minerve, frappant la terre ("Minerva striking the earth to generate the olive tree"), Versailles.
- Louis XIV, equestrian bas-relief for the Hôtel des Invalides.
- Empress Josephine, church at Rueil-Malmaison, near Paris.
- Two monuments to Louis XV, in bronze, one for the Place de Reims, the other for the Rond Point of the Champs-Élysées.
- La Pudeur ("Modesty"); exhibited at the Salon of 1801, in plaster, when it won a first prize, and of 1808, in marble, which was purchased for the gallery at Malmaison.
Notes
- ^ Charles Paul Landon, Annales du Musée et de l'École Moderne des Beaux-Arts vol. I, 1833:27ff.
- ^ "P. Cartellier (1757 - 1831)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pierre Cartellier.
- Pierre Cartellier in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
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