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 Mo ...
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