Edme Dumont (1720–1775) was a French sculptor. Dumont was born into a family of sculptors: his father was François Dumont, his grandfather Pierre Dumont. He received his first lessons from his father, and was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1768, with his reception piece ''

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''. He married Marie Berthault and they had a son, the sculptor Jacques-Edme Dumont. On 10 November 1775 he died at his home at the Louvre Palace and was buried the next day in the Holy Innocents' Cemetery. File:Milo of Croton Dumont Louvre MR1839.jpg, ''

'' by François Dumont, reception piece for the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture,

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, 1768

References

* Collective Acts of civil status of artists, Slatkine, 1972, p. 125/478. Archives of baptisms, marriages and burials of the parish of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois * Dictionary of sculptors of the French school in the eighteenth century. Volume 2 by Stanislas Lami

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* 1720 births 1775 deaths 18th-century French sculptors French male sculptors Sculptors from Paris 18th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub