François-Nicolas Delaistre (

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9 March 1746 – 23 April 1832

) was a French sculptor. Delaistre was educated by Félix Lecomte and Louis-Claude Vassé. Delaistre won the

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in 1772; he studied a year at the

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at the

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and later at the

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between 1773 and 1777. It was there that he probably first met the architect

Pierre-Adrien Pâris Pierre-Adrien Pâris (1745 - 1 August 1819) was a French architect, painter and designer. Biography Pâris was born at Besançon, the son of an architect and official surveyor at the court of the Prince-Bishop of Basel. He went to Paris to stu ...

, with whom he later collaborated. His best-known work, the group ''Cupid and Psyche'', was originally executed in Rome (the later marble version is in the

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at Paris). The ''Nuttall Encyclopedia'' mentions ''"Delaistre, a French statuary, born in Paris (1836-1891)"'': this may be a relative of François Delaistre.

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* 18th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French sculptors Prix de Rome for sculpture 1746 births 1832 deaths Sculptors from Paris 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub

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