
Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (), known as Auguste Dumont (4 August 1801,
Paris
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– 28 January 1884, Paris) was a French
sculptor
Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...
.
Biography
Auguste Dumont was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of
Pierre Dumont, son of
Jacques-Edme Dumont
Jacques-Edme Dumont (April 10, 1761 in Paris – February 21, 1844 in Paris) was a French sculptor.
Dumont came from a dynasty of sculptors that included his great-grandfather Pierre Dumont, grandfather François Dumont, father Edme Dumont and ...
, and the brother to pianist and composer
Louise Farrenc
Louise Farrenc (; 31 May 1804 – 15 September 1875) was a French composer, virtuoso pianist and teacher of the Romantic music, Romantic period. Her compositions include three symphonies, a few choral works, numerous chamber music, chamber piec ...
. In 1818, he started studies at the
École des Beaux-Arts
; ) refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The term is associated with the Beaux-Arts architecture, Beaux-Arts style in architecture and city planning that thrived in France and other countries during the late nineteenth centu ...
in Paris, where he was a pupil of
Pierre Cartellier
Pierre Cartellier (2 December 1757 – 12 June 1831) was a French sculpture, sculptor.
Biography
Pierre Cartellier was born in Paris. He studied at the École Gratuite de Dessin in Paris and then in the studio of Charles-Antoine Bridan, bef ...
. In 1823, he was awarded the
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 ...
for his sculptures, and went to study at the
French Academy in Rome
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History
The Academy was founded at the Palazzo Capranica in 1666 by Louis XIV under the dire ...
.
In 1830, he returned to France. In 1853, he became a teacher at the École des Beaux-Arts. A disease kept him from working after 1875.
Works
* ''Infant Bacchus Nurtured by the Nymph Leucothea'' (1830;
Semur-en-Auxois
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, Musée Municipal)
* Statue of
Nicolas Poussin
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for the ''Salle Ordinaire des Séances'' in the
Palais de l'Institut de France, Paris (1835)
* Statue of
Maréchal Thomas Bugeaud de la Piconnerie (~1850; version,
Versailles
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)
References

* 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
* Emmanuel Schwartz, ''Les Sculptures de l'École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Histoire, doctrines, catalogue'', École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2003, p. 146
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1801 births
1884 deaths
Sculptors from Paris
Prix de Rome for sculpture
Members of the Académie des beaux-arts
École des Beaux-Arts alumni
Academic staff of the École des Beaux-Arts
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
19th-century French male artists
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