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Célestin Nanteuil
Célestin-François Nanteuil-Lebœuf, known as Célestin Nanteuil, (11 July 1813 – 6 September 1873) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator closely tied to the Romantic movement in France. He was born in Rome of French parents who were part of Joseph Bonaparte's entourage. Nanteuil entered the École des Beaux-Arts in 1827, where he studied under Eustache-Hyacinthe Langlois, and then worked in the studio of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Dominique Ingres. In 1848, he was made Director of Académie des beaux-arts (France), Académie des beaux-arts and later became the curator of the Musée des beaux-arts in Dijon.Université de Liège Collections artistiquesCélestin NANTEUIL (Rome, 1813 - Marlotte, 1873) Retrieved 27 July 2012. He died in Bourron-Marlotte at the age of 60. His elder brother, Charles-François Lebœuf, Charles-François, was a noted sculptor who won the Prix de Rome in 1817. References Further reading * Bayard, Émile''L'illustration et les illustrateu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles-François Lebœuf
Charles-François Lebœuf, called Nanteuil (9 August 1792 – 1 November 1865) was a French sculptor.Lemaistre 1998. Career Born in Paris, he studied with Pierre Cartellier at the École des Beaux-Arts, winning the Grand Prix de Rome in Sculpture in 1817 with a gypsum figure of ''Agis, Dying by His Own Arms''. The prize included a period of study at the Villa Medici of the French Academy in Rome, where Nanteuil carved the marble statue ''Dying Eurydice'' (1822), which he exhibited in Paris in his highly successful debut at the Salon of 1824. The statue is now in the Musée du Louvre. This work later inspired Auguste Clésinger's ''Woman Bitten by a Snake'' (1847, Musée d'Orsay). Nanteuil received many commissions from the French government, including one for a group entitled ''Commerce and Industry'' at the French Senate in the Palais du Luxembourg, which was inspired by the first-century sculpture ''Castor and Pollux''. Other commissioned works include a seated statue of Mont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
