François-Frédéric Lemot
François-Frédéric Lemot (born November 4, 1772 in Lyon , Département Rhône , † May 6, 1827 in Paris ) was a French sculptor.
life and work
Lemot received his first artistic lessons at the École regional des beaux-arts (EBA) in Besançon ( Doubs department ). He later went to Paris, where he became a pupil of Claude Dejoux (1732-1816). Through the mediation of Dejoux was him by King Louis XVI. granted a scholarship for a study trip (1790–1793) to Rome ( Académie de France à Rome ).
During the French Revolution , Lemot fought under General Charles Pichegru and then lived for a long time in oppressive circumstances in Italy and France, until in 1795 he was commissioned to erect a colossal statue of the French people, an order that was never carried out.
Lemot later made the statues of Numa Pompilius , Ciceros , Leonidas , Brutus and Lycurgus for various public meeting rooms . At the front of the speaker's platform in the hall of the Assembleé Nationale in the Palais Bourbon, there are still two reliefs with marble depictions of L'Histoire (history) and La Renommée (reputation, fame, fama ).
The marble statue of a Bacchante , the 4 chariots and the figures of victory and peace for the triumphal arch on the Place du Carrousel were created for Napoléon Bonaparte . In 1810 he made the 22 m long and 5 m high relief for the colonnade of the Louvre , which earned him the great decennial prize.
After the restoration , Lemot made the equestrian statue of Henry IV for the Pont Neuf in Paris and the Louis XVI. for the Place Bellecour in Lyon . After setting up this work he was appointed Chevalier of the Legion of Honor .
His works are characterized by pure, strict taste, good invention and careful execution.
Lemot was the teacher of the sculptor Louis-Marie-Charles Mercier Dupaty (1771-1825).
Triumphal arch
Henri IV. At the Pont Neuf
Place Bellecour in Lyon
Triumphal arch at the carousel square
literature
- Association of Scholars: General German conversation lexicon for the educated of every class. Volume 6, Gebrüder Reichenbach, Leipzig 1840, p. 498.
- François-Frédéric Lemot (1771-1827) . Nantes 2005, ISBN 2-907908-40-5 (catalog of the exhibition of the same name, Garenne-Lemot, June 24 to October 2, 2005).
- François-Frédéric Lemot . In: Emmanuel Bénézit (ed.): Dictionnaire critique et documentaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs de tous les temps et de tous les pays, vol. 8 . New edition Grund, Paris 1999.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lemot, François-Frédéric |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1772 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lyon |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1827 |
| Place of death | Paris |