François Dumont (1688 – 14 December 1726) was a French sculptor.

Early life

Dumont was the son of the sculptor Pierre Dumont and Marie Mercier. He was a native of the

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, and the brother of Jacques Dumont le Romain (1704-1781), painter. In 1709 he was awarded the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

. Approved the previous year, François Dumont was received on 24 September 1712, at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture).

Marriage

On November 21, 1712, Dumont married: "In the Church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois in the presence of his parents, miss Anne-Françoise Coypel, aged 24 years, daughter of the late

Noël Coypel Noël Coypel (; 25 December 1628 – 24 December 1707) was a French painter, and was also called Coypel le Poussin, because he was heavily influenced by Poussin. Coypel was born in Paris, the son of an unsuccessful artist. Having been employed ...

(1628-1707), ''vivant peintre ordinaire du Roi'' and Anne Françoise Perrin (ca. 1665-1728). Present, his parents, Philippe Sauvage, secretary of the Marquis de La Chastre, residing rue du Mail, parish St. Eutache, cousin of the groom, Françoise Perrin, mother of the bride, Antoine Coypel, painter to the king, keeps paintings and drawings by Her Majesty, the first painter of the Duc d'Orléans remaining galleries of the Louvre, brother of the bride, Christmas Nicolas Coypel, son of late Noel Coypel remaining street Nettles of this parish, brother mariée that signed".

Career

Dumont's son

Edme Dumont 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 royal ...

, and his grandson

Jacques-Edme Dumont Jacques-Edme Dumont (April 10, 1761 in Paris – February 21, 1844 in Paris) was a French sculptor. Dumont came from a dynasty of sculptors that included his great-grandfather Pierre Dumont, grandfather François Dumont, father Edme Dumont and ...

also became sculptors.

Lambert-Sigisbert Adam Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (10 October 170012 May 1759) was a lorrain sculptor born in 1700 in Nancy. The eldest son of sculptor Jacob-Sigisbert Adam, he was known as Adam l’aîné ("the elder") to distinguish him from his two sculptor brothers Ni ...

was one of his students as well. He executed for the

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four statues: St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John and St. Joseph. He was the first sculptor of

Leopold, Duke of Lorraine Leopold the Good (11 September 1679 – 27 March 1729) was Duke of Lorraine and Bar from 1690 to his death. Through his son Francis Stephen, he is the direct male ancestor of all rulers of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty, including all Emperors o ...

, for which he worked in Nancy, France.

References

* Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre (under the direction of Jean-René Gaborit, with the collaboration of Jean-Charles Agboton Helen Grollemund Michele Lafabrie Beatrice Tupinier-Barillon), Louvre Museum. Department of sculptures from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and modern times. French Sculpture II. Renaissance and modern times. flight. 1 Adam - Gois, Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1998 * Pierre Kjellberg, New Guide statues of Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1988 * Leon Charvet, Meeting Corporate Fine Arts departments, the Ministry of National Education, Paris, 1890 1688 births 1729 deaths 18th-century French sculptors French male sculptors Artists from Paris 18th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub