Pierre Petitot (11 December 1760, in

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– 7 November 1840, in Paris) was a French sculptor. Louis XVI et Marie-Antoinette

Petitot initially studied under Claude François Devosge at the

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. In 1788 he won the first major sculpture prize founded by the States of Burgundy, which allowed him to travel and stay in Rome. His award-winning statue was on display in the

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. After he returned to France, he was imprisoned on suspicion of being a counter-revolutionary, and was freed after the fall of Robespierre on 27 July 1794. He regularly exhibited at the

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until 1819. He worked with Pierre Cartellier and Joseph Espercieux. The Museum of Dijon has an oil on canvas portrait of him painted by the artist

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, and

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also contains some of his works.

References

* Hoefer (Jean Chrétien Ferdinand) new general biography (Vol.39), published in 1853 1760 births 1840 deaths 18th-century French sculptors 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors People from Langres 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub