Edme Dumont

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Portrait of Edme Dumont at work

Edme Dumont (1720–1775) was a French sculptor.

Dumont was born into a family of sculptors: his father was François Dumont, his grandfather Pierre Dumont. He received his first lessons from his father, and was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1768, with his reception piece Milo of Croton. He married Marie Berthault and they had a son, the sculptor Jacques-Edme Dumont. On 10 November 1775 he died at his home at the Louvre Palace and was buried the next day in the Holy Innocents' Cemetery.

References[edit]

  • Collective Acts of civil status of artists, Slatkine, 1972, p. 125/478. Archives of baptisms, marriages and burials of the parish of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois
  • Dictionary of sculptors of the French school in the eighteenth century. Volume 2 by Stanislas Lami

External links[edit]

  • Edme Dumont in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website Edit this at Wikidata