Jean-Pierre Cortot

Jean-Pierre Cortot (born August 20, 1787 in Paris , † August 12, 1843 there ) was a French sculptor .

The triumph of Napoleon in 1810

Cortot studied at the Académie des Beaux-Arts and won second prize in 1806 and first prize in the Prix de Rome in 1809 . In 1810 he received the Prix de la tête d'expression. Cortot lived and worked for several years in Rome, where he also carried out state contracts for Napoleon and Louis XVIII . In 1819 he returned to Paris and in 1825 became a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts . Cortot was one of the most successful sculptors of the Restoration and July Monarchy. His main work is the relief L'Apothéose de Napoléon Ier (Le Triomphe de 1810) completed in 1833 at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

Gable relief at the Palais Bourbon

Works (selection)

1836: Two allegorical figures on the Place de la Concorde : La Ville de Rouen and La Ville de Brest
1841: Gable relief on the Palais Bourbon (Assemblée Nationale)

literature

AKL
Anne Pingeot (ed.), La sculpture française au XIXe siècle, Paris 1986.

personal data
SURNAME	Cortot, Jean-Pierre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 20, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	August 12, 1843
Place of death	Paris