Jean-Pierre Cortot
Jean-Pierre Cortot (August 20, 1787 – August 12, 1843) was a French sculptor.
[edit] Life
Cortot was born and died in Paris. He was educated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and took the Prix de Rome in 1809, residing in the Villa Medici in Rome from 1810 to 1813.
Cortot worked in an austere, correct, academic neo-classical style, heir to both classic French models from the late 18th Century, and the Greco-Roman tradition. His art took on a more romantic expression towards the end of his life.
Appointed a professor at the Ecole, as the successor of Charles Dupaty, he was made a member of the Académie des beaux-arts in 1825 (also replacing Dupaty in that role). He was also made an Officer of the Légion d'honneur in 1841.
Among his students are Joseph Marius Ramus, Jean-Jacques Feuchère, Pierre-Charles Simart, Jean-Auguste Barre, and the animalier Pierre Louis Rouillard. A street in Montmartre bears his name, and Cortot's grave can be found at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
[edit] Works
- The soldier of Marathon announcing victory, in the Louvre, 1822–1834
- Daphnis and Chloe, in the Louvre, 1824–1827
- marble equestrian statue of Louis XIII, in the Place des Vosges (begun by Louis Dupaty), 1825
- silver statue of the Virgin at the Notre-Dame de la Garde, Marseilles, 1829
- The Apotheosis of Napoleon the First, or The Triumph of 1810, bas-relief on the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, 1833
- Place de la Concorde: the French cities, statues representing Brest and Rouen, 1835–1838
- tomb of Casimir Pierre Périer, including three bas-reliefs of Eloquence, Justice and Strength, Père Lachaise Cemetery, 1837
- France, between Liberty and Public Order, 18-figure pediment sculpture for the Palais Bourbon, for the renovation architect Bernard Poyet, Paris, 1841
- bust of Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant at the Galerie des Batailles, Paris
- Marie Antoinette sustained by religion, Chapelle expiatoire, Paris
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