Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux (4 November 1788 – 9 February 1881) was a French sculptor and medal engraver. Born in Paris, he studied under his father

Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux Nicolas-Marie Gatteaux (2 August 1751, Paris - 24 June 1832, Paris) was a French medal engraver, also notable as the father of the sculptor and medallist Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux (1788–1881). In 1781 he was appointed graveur des médailles du R ...

(also a medal engraver) and Jean-Guillaume Moitte. He won first prize in the prix de Rome in 1809 and was elected a member of the Académie des beaux-arts in 1845 and of the Institut de France. He also became an officer of the Légion d'honneur. He died in his home city.

Works

Among his medals are examples showing Corneille, La Fontaine, Buffon, Malherbe, Rabelais, the coronation of Charles X and the arrival of Louis-Philippe. He designed marble busts of Rabelais and

Michelangelo Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (; 6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known as Michelangelo (), was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. Born in the Republic of Florence, his work was insp ...

,'' La Grande Encyclopédie'' vol. 18. as well as the statue of

Anne de Beaujeu Anne of France (or Anne de Beaujeu; 3 April 146114 November 1522) was a French princess and regent, the eldest daughter of Louis XI by Charlotte of Savoy. Anne was the sister of Charles VIII of France, Charles VIII, for whom she acted as regent d ...

in the ''

Reines de France et Femmes illustres The ''Queens of France and Famous Women'' (''Reines de France et Femmes illustres'') is a group of sculptures in the Jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. It consists of 20 marble sculptures arranged around a large pond in front of the Palais du Luxembourg ...

'' series in the jardin du Luxembourg in Paris. In 2004, the musée du Louvre preempted a Sotheby's sale in Paris of a 74-cm high bronze statue of Minerva by him from 1843. File:France, The Three Graces Silver Prize Medal 1833 (ND) by Eduard Gatteaux, obverse.jpg, France, The Three Graces Silver Prize Medal 1833 (ND) by Eduard Gatteaux for the

École nationale des Beaux-Arts École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Savo ...

, Paris, obverse File:Anne de Beaujeu.JPG, Statue of Anne de Beaujeu, from the ''

'' series in the jardin du Luxembourg.

General sources

* * E. Bénézit. ''Dictionnaire des peintres, sculpteurs, dessinateurs et graveurs''. 1976. Volume 4, page 631.

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* 1788 births 1881 deaths 19th-century French sculptors Artists from Paris Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery French male sculptors French medallists Officiers of the Légion d'honneur Prix de Rome for engraving 19th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub