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French sculptor

Jean-Guillaume Moitte (11 November 1746, Paris – 2 May 1810, Paris) was a French sculptor.

Life

Moitte was the son of Pierre-Etienne Moitte. He became the sculptor of Pigalle then Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. He won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1768 with David carrying the head of Goliath in triumph. He then entered the École royale des élèves protégés before a stay at the Rome, though it was cut short due to illness.

He worked for the king's goldsmith Auguste and participated in decorative works for monuments in capital. He was commissioned to produce sculptures of generals who had died in battle such as one of Custine for the musée de Versailles, the tomb of Louis Desaix at Grand Saint-Bernard or that of Leclerc at the Panthéon de Paris. He also designed and sculpted the pediment for the Panthéon during the French Revolution, with the theme of the Fatherland crowning the civil and heroic virtues Moitte and Philippe-Laurent Roland were the main sculptors for the exterior of the hôtel de Salm.

He was a member of the Institut de France, the Légion d'honneur and professor of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

Works

Louvre

Law, Numa, Manco Cápac, Moses and a pharaoh , bas-reliefs, bronze, Paris, musée du Louvre
Minerva, statuette, terracotta, Paris, musée du Louvre
The Triumph of Voltaire (1778), drawing, Paris, musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques
Orpheus in the underworld, drawing, Paris, musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques
Orpheus and Eurydice, drawing, Paris, musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques
Thucydides, Herodotus, Egyptian divinity and an Inca (1806), stone reliefs, Paris, palais du Louvre, cour Carrée, attic of the west façade, to the right of the Pavillon de l’Horloge

Hôtel de Salm, Palais de la Légion d’honneur

Two Renommée, bas-reliefs, stone, main gate
Festival of the Pales, bas-relief, stone, at the base of the courtyard
Five bas-reliefs and six allegorical statues, stone, corps central quai Anatole-France
Ceres, Mars and Diana, terracotta studies for statues on the coupole

Other

Rousseau observing childhood's first steps, group, terracotta (1790), Paris, musée Carnavalet
Dansers, frieze of the attic of the barrière d’Enfer, stone, Paris, place Denfert-Rochereau
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, white marble bust, Fontainebleau, château
The Rhine and The Nile, deux bas-reliefs for the tomb du général Desaix dans l’hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernard ainsi que ses deux plâtres modèles, bas-reliefs, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
Adam Philippe, comte de Custine, commander in chief (1742–1793) (Salon of 1810), larger-than-life-size marble statue, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, completed by Jean-Baptiste Stouf
Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712), terracotta equestrian statuette, Bayonne, musée Bonnat
A sacrifice, drawing, Dijon, musée Magnin
Departure (1798–1799), drawing, Vizille, Musée de la Révolution française
Original bas-reliefs (destroyed) and two bronze lions (surviving), Column of the Grande Armée, Wimille
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi (1795), Mougins Museum of Classical Art

Sources

Simone Hoog, (preface by Jean-Pierre Babelon, in collaboration with Roland Brossard), Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I- Le musée, Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1993.
Pierre Kjellberg, Le Nouveau guide des statues de Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1988.
Catalogue d’exposition, Skulptur aus dem Louvre. Sculptures françaises néo-classiques. 1760 - 1830, Paris, musée du Louvre, 23 mai - 3 septembre 1990.

Notes

This scheme was suppressed on the Bourbon Restoration and replaced with the present scheme by David d'Angers.

External links

Jean Guillaume Moitte on Joconde.
Jean Guillaume Moitte in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website

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