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

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then Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. He won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1768 with '' David carrying the head of

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in triumph''. He then entered the

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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 The Panthéon (, from the Classical Greek word , , ' empleto all the gods') is a monument in the 5th arrondissement of Paris, France. It stands in the Latin Quarter, atop the , in the centre of the , which was named after it. The edifice was bu ...

. 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 virtuesThis scheme was suppressed on the

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and replaced with the present scheme by David d'Angers. Moitte and

Philippe-Laurent Roland Philippe-Laurent Roland (13 August 1746 – 11 July 1816) was a French sculptor. A native of Pont-à-Marcq, Nord, he died in Paris. His art is neoclassical in style; he worked a great deal in stone and in terra cotta. Some of his reliefs may ...

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 The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Sciences ...

Works

Louvre

* ''Law, Numa, Manco Cápac,

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and a pharaoh'

bas-reliefs, bronze, Paris, Louvre, musée du Louvre * ''Minerva'', statuette, terracotta, Paris, Louvre, musée du Louvre * ''The Triumph of Voltaire'' (1778), drawing, Paris, Louvre, musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques * '' Orpheus in the underworld'', drawing, Paris, Louvre, musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques * ''Orpheus and Eurydice'', drawing, Paris, Louvre, musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques * ''Thucydides'', ''Herodotus'', ''Egyptian divinity'' and an ''Inca'' (1806), stone reliefs, Paris, palais du Louvre, cour Carrée,

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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,

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* ''Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci'', white marble bust,

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, château * ''The Rhine'' and ''The Nile'', deux bas-reliefs for the tomb du général

Desaix Desaix may refer to: *Louis Desaix Louis Charles Antoine Desaix () (17 August 176814 June 1800) was a French general and military leader during the French Revolutionary Wars. According to the usage of the time, he took the name ''Louis Charles An ...

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 Jean-Baptiste Stouf (Paris 1742–Charenton-le-Pont 1826) was a French sculptor known especially for his commemorative portrait busts and expressive emotional content. Biography Stouf was a pupil of Guillaume II Coustou, son of the great Fr ...

* '' Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712)'', terracotta equestrian statuette,

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, musée Bonnat * ''A sacrifice'', drawing, Dijon, musée Magnin * ''Departure'' (1798–1799), drawing,

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, Musée de la Révolution française * Original bas-reliefs (destroyed) and two bronze lions (surviving),

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, Wimille * ''Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi'' (1795),

Mougins Museum of Classical Art The MACM, the Mougins Museum of Classical Art (Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins) is an art museum located in the village of Mougins, in the Alpes-Maritimes department, France. It is 30 minutes from Nice airport and 15 minutes from the centre o ...

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.

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. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Moitte, Jean Guillaume 1746 births 1810 deaths Artists from Paris French architectural sculptors 18th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French sculptors Prix de Rome for sculpture Recipients of the Legion of Honour Members of the Académie des beaux-arts 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists