Edme Gaulle (1762,1760 in some sources

Langres Langres () is a commune in northeastern France. It is a subprefecture of the department of Haute-Marne, in the region of Grand Est. History As the capital of the Romanized Gallic tribe known as the Lingones, it was called Andematunnum, then ...

- January 1841, Paris) was a French sculptor.

Life

He began by studying drawing with Francois Devosge at the school in

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, then going to follow Jean Guillaume Moitte's course at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He won the second prize for sculpture in 1791 with ''

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coming to visit Anaxagoras'', and the first prize for sculpture (

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

) in 1803 for '' Ulysses recognising his nurse

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'', but the

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prevented him setting out for Rome for his stay at the

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. He and

François Rude François Rude (4 January 1784 – 3 November 1855) was a French sculptor, best known for the ''Departure of the Volunteers'', also known as ''La Marseillaise'' on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. (1835–36). His work often expressed patriotic the ...

were two of the thirty sculptors charged with the sculpture of the colonne de la Grande Armée on

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. He was an expert consultant on the restoration of the

bas-relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term '' relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that th ...

of the pediment of the Panthéon de Paris, realised by

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in 1830. This pediment was originally sculpted by his master Moitte in 1793 and was practically destroyed in 1822, with Edme Gaulle succeeding in conserving the fragments that were left. He had made several sketches of the pediment before its destruction, but had been unable to prevent it. In 1831, he was made inspecteur conservateur of the Dépôt des marbres of the Ministry of Public Works, on île des cygnes, founded by Colbert.

Main works

* a ''marble statue of a kneeling

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'', for the église de Saint-Denis : Praying Marie-Antoinette and Louis XVI (commissioned by Louis XVIII in 1816 from Edme Gaulle and

Pierre Petitot Pierre Petitot (11 December 1760, in Langres – 7 November 1840, in Paris) was a French sculptor. Petitot initially studied under Claude François Devosge at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon. In 1788 he won the first major sculpture prize fou ...

, realised in 1830). * bust of Claude Perrault * ''the Study of Nature'', bas-relief for a planned fountain on

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* two bronze bull's head fountain-heads at 8 rue des Hospitalières-Saint-Gervais, on a building which was originally the cattle shed for the marché des Blancs Manteaux, later converted into a school. Image:Fronton Pantheon Paris 06062007.jpg, ''The fatherland crowning illustrious men'',

on the pediment of the Panthéon de Paris. Image:Fronton Panthéon2.jpg, Pediment with the motto of the Panthéon Image:Bull head Gaulle Paris.jpg, Bronze bull's head, fountainhead of Paris's marché des Blanc-Manteaux (1762-1841), 1819. H. 19 cm (7 ¼ in.) Image:Pletzl Hospitalieres Saint Gervais tete de boeuf 191208.jpg

References

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