Jean-Jacques Feuchère

Jean-Jacques Feuchère (born August 24, 1807 in Paris , France , † July 28, 1852 there ) was a French sculptor .

Life

Feuchère was the son of a chaser and began his working life as a goldsmith. At the Paris École des beaux-arts de Paris , he attended, albeit not regularly, courses with sculptors such as Jean-Pierre Cortot and Jules Ramey . In 1829 he made the figure of a young woman for the tomb of the painter Louis Lafitte . For more than twenty years until the end of his life he was a sought-after sculptor for private and public commissions. Jacques-Léonard Maillet was one of his students.

Awards

• 1834: Medal of the Paris Salon.

Sculptures

• 1829: Bronze relief The Mourning , gravestone of the painter Louis Lafitte in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
• 1831: For the salon of the same year: nymph on a shell , angel playing a musical instrument , victory and peace .
• 1832: Low relief at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris: The passage over the Arcole bridge on November 15, 1796 .
• 1832: bronze sculpture Satan , height: 34.3 cm. Gift of the Society of Friends of the Louvre Museum to the Louvre in 2011.
• 1833: Vases with bats , Musée du Louvre , Paris.
• 1833: Young man asks monks to join their order .
• 1835: The theological virtues (faith, hope, love), low relief above the entrance to the church of St-Denys-du-Saint-Sacrement in Paris.
• 1836: Satan , Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Los Angeles, California, USA.
• 1838: Navigation fluviale , L'Agriculture and L'Industrie at the northern fountain Place de la Concorde , Paris.
• 1840: Sainte Thérèse , exhibited in the Salon of the same year, located today in the Église de la Madeleine , Paris.
• 1841: Alexandre Brogniart .
• 1843: Amazon taming a wild horse , bronze sculpture, Louvre, Paris.
• 1844: Marie-Adélaïde-Clotilde-Xavière de France, reine de Sardaigne .
• 1848: Bronze bust (height: 52 cm) on the tomb of Jean-Baptiste François Provost in the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
• 1849: Cavalier arabe , stone sculpture erected on the Pont d'Iéna in Paris in 1853 .
• 1852: La Loi , marble sculpture, the design of which was acquired by the government of the French Republic in 1848 for the figure La Constitution . The imperial government under Napoléon III. had the sculpture erected on the Place du Palais-Borbon in Paris in 1854 .
• 1840–1846: Allegory of Natural History , bronze as part of the Fontaine Cuvier , Paris, Rue Linné, 5th arrondissement , opposite the Jardin des Plantes .
• Maria Stuart , statue in the Jardin du Luxembourg , Paris.
• Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester , Gallery of Battles , Versailles Palace .

Web links

Commons : Jean-Jacques Feuchère  - Collection of images, videos and audio files