Achille-Joseph-Étienne Valois (13 January 1785 — 17 December 1862) was a French designer and sculptor who studied for a time in the atelier of

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

and whose sculptural works may be seen in Paris. He also studied with

Antoine-Denis Chaudet Antoine-Denis Chaudet (3 March 1763 – 19 April 1810) was a French sculptor who worked in a neoclassical style. Although mostly known as a sculptor, Chaudet did branch out in style and medium over the course of his career as an artist. Late ...

Career

Among his early works is the Fontaine de Léda (1806–08) in Fontainebleau style re-sited in the

Jardin du Luxembourg The Jardin du Luxembourg (), known in English as the Luxembourg Garden, colloquially referred to as the Jardin du Sénat (Senate Garden), is located in the 6th arrondissement of Paris, France. Creation of the garden began in 1612 when Marie de' ...

. At the restoration of the Bourbons he hastened to execute a bust of

Louis XVIII Louis XVIII (Louis Stanislas Xavier; 17 November 1755 – 16 September 1824), known as the Desired (), was King of France from 1814 to 1824, except for a brief interruption during the Hundred Days in 1815. He spent twenty-three years in ...

. In 1816 he sculpted a portrait of ''Madame Royale'' the duchesse d'Angoulême, eldest daughter of the late Louis XVI. His bust of the sculptor

, with whom he had also studied, exhibited at the Salon of 1817, was bought in 1820 for the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Angers. He contributed a marble bas-relief of children representing ''Medicine'' intended for a fountain in

Place de la Bastille The Place de la Bastille is a square in Paris where the Bastille prison once stood, until the storming of the Bastille and its subsequent physical destruction between 14 July 1789 and 14 July 1790 during the French Revolution. No vestige of the ...

(1817) colossal statues of Louis XVI for Montpellier and the cast-iron ''Pêche des coquillages'' (1838–40) to the central ''

Fontaines de la Concorde The Fontaines de la Concorde are two monumental fountains located in the Place de la Concorde in the center of Paris. They were designed by Jacques Ignace Hittorff, and completed in 1840 during the reign of King Louis-Philippe. The south foun ...

'', designed by

Jacques Ignace Hittorff Jacques Ignace Hittorff or, in German, Jakob Ignaz Hittorff (, ) (Cologne, 20 August 1792 – 25 March 1867) was a German-born French architect who combined advanced structural use of new materials, notably cast iron, with conservative Bea ...

for

Place de la Concorde The Place de la Concorde () is one of the major public squares in Paris, France. Measuring in area, it is the largest square in the French capital. It is located in the city's eighth arrondissement, at the eastern end of the Champs-Élysées. ...

. As a draughtsman, Valois produced a drawing of the triumphal arrival of celebrated works of art from the Vatican in Paris, 1798, that was copied on a Sèvres porcelain "Etruscan" vase (''Vase Étrusque à rouleaux'') in 1813. Valois was made a Chevalier of the

Légion d'Honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

in 1825.''Dictionnaire général ''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Valois, Achille 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors Prix de Rome for sculpture 1785 births 1862 deaths Pupils of Jacques-Louis David Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur 19th-century male artists Artists from Paris