François Dumont (sculptor)
François Dumont (* 1688 in Paris ; † 14. December 1726 in Lille ) was a French sculptor of the Baroque .
Born in Paris as the son of the sculptor Pierre Dumont , he too took up his father's craftsmanship. While it is unclear about his exact date of birth, a certain date is his admission to the Académie Royale on September 24, 1712 . As an approval work, he made the small-format statuette Titan foudroyé, which is now in the Louvre, (German: Titan shattered by lightning ; B: 0.65 m; L: 0.70 m; D: 0.58 m).
His four statues for the church of St-Sulpice de Paris are also well known : Saints Peter , Paul , John and Joseph , which he completed a year before his death in 1726. In his studio he employed both his father Jacob-Sigisbert Adam and his later better-known son Lambert-Sigisbert Adam , whose training he also controlled - albeit more through his father.
On November 21, 1712 François Dumont married Anne-Françoise Coypel, the half-sister of the painters Antoine Coypel and Noël-Nicolas Coypel .
Works
- Titan foudroyé (1712), statuette , marble , Paris, Louvre
- Petrus , Paulus (1725), statues, stone, Paris, St-Sulpice de Paris, facade of the north transept , rue Saint-Sulpice
- Johannes , Joseph (1725), statues, stone, Paris, Saint-Sulpice, facade of the south transept, rue Palatine
literature
- Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre (sous la direction de Jean-René Gaborit, avec la collaboration de Jean-Charles Agboton, Hélène Grollemund, Michèle Lafabrie, Béatrice Tupinier-Barillon): Musée du Louvre. département des sculptures du Moyen Âge, de la Renaissance et des temps moderne. Sculpture française II. Renaissance et temps modern . Volume 1 Adam - Gois . Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris 1998.
- Pierre Kjellberg: Le Nouveau guide des statues de Paris . La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris 1988.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dumont, François |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French baroque sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1688 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 14, 1726 |
| Place of death | Lille , France |