François Jouffroy (1 February 1806 – 25 June 1882) was a French sculptor.
Biography
Jouffroy was born in
Dijon
Dijon (, , ) (dated)
* it, Digione
* la, Diviō or
* lmo, Digion is the prefecture of the Côte-d'Or department and of the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in northeastern France. the commune had a population of 156,920.
The earlie ...
, France, the son of a baker, and attended the local drawing school before being admitted to the
École des Beaux-Arts
École des Beaux-Arts (; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centur ...
in Paris in 1824. In 1832 he won the
Prix de Rome. Jouffroy often had to compete with
Pierre-Jean David d'Angers for public commissions, but during the
Second Empire (1851–1870) he still participated in the decoration of several public buildings.
He was a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts from 1865 until his death.
Among his students were
Per Hasselberg,
Jean Dampt,
Léopold Morice
Léopold Morice (1846, Nîmes - 1919, Paris) was a French sculptor.
Life
An apprentice in Auguste Bosc's studio then in François Jouffroy's studio, he was later admitted to the ''École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts'' aged 19. His tal ...
,
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Augustus Saint-Gaudens (; March 1, 1848 – August 3, 1907) was an American sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. From a French-Irish family, Saint-Gaudens was raised in New York City, he tra ...
, José Simões de Almeida (Tio),
António Soares dos Reis
António Manuel Soares dos Reis (Vila Nova de Gaia, 14 October 1847 - Vila Nova de Gaia, 16 February 1889) was a Portuguese sculptor.
Studies
He first studied at the Portuense Academy of Fine Arts, where he graduated in sculpture in 1867. He st ...
,
Elisa de Lamartine, and
Adrien Étienne Gaudez.
Jouffroy died at
Laval, Mayenne in 1882.
Works
Gallery of images
File:Jouffroy Ariane abandonnée.jpg, ''"Ariane abandonnée"''
File:Merchant Marine Jouffroy Louvre.jpg, ''"Merchant Marine"''
File:Auxonne - Bonaparte 2.JPG, Bonaparte
File:Paris-Opera-1977-5a.jpg, Paris Opera
File:Saint-Germain-Source-Seine 2.jpg, ''"Source of the Seine"''
File:Premier-secret-confie-a-Venus.jpg, ''"Premier-secret-confie-a-Venus"''
References
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Artists from Dijon
French architectural sculptors
Prix de Rome for sculpture
1806 births
1882 deaths
Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
19th-century French male artists