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Jacques Edme DUMONT (1761–1844), after
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325
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Jacques Edme DUMONT (1761–1844), after
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Estimate €400 - €600
Voluntary lot
Description
Jacques Edme DUMONT (1761–1844), after
Roman Augur with Raised Finger
Chiselled and patinated bronze sculpture
H: 54.5 cm
Distortions at the base
Jacques-Edme DUMONT, born on 10 April 1761 in Paris, where he died on 21 February 1844, was a French sculptor. Son of the sculptor Edme Dumont, and father of the sculptor Auguste Dumont and the composer Louise Farrenc, Jacques-Edme first worked in Pajou’s studio from 1775 before entering the École royale des élèves protégés in 1777, still under the tutelage of the same sculptor. Having won first prize for sculpture in 1788, he left for the Villa Medici in Rome that same year. After a stay in Naples, he returned to France in 1793. During the Revolution, he tackled literary subjects such as Paul and Virginie and Émile and Sophie. He produced a large number of sculptural groups, statues and bas-reliefs for public monuments, including: *General Marceau* (1804) at the Palais du Luxembourg in Paris, and *Pichegru* for the town of Arbois. In 1819, he created the statue of Malesherbes for the office of Louis XVIII. This statue was later reused in the monument designed by the architect Hippolyte Lebas for the Palais de Justice in Paris, which was inaugurated in December 1822. He also produced busts such as that of his mother (Louvre Museum) and that of General Causse (Palace of Versailles).
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