Jean-Baptiste Giraud (1752 – 14 February 1830) was a French

sculptor Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable sc ...

.François Miel, Notice sur les deux Giraud, sculpteurs français, Paris, Société libre des beaux-arts, s.d. (1840; in French)

Biography

Giraud was born in

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

. Made rich by his uncle's inheritance, he spent eight years in

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, to study the Ancient Arts there. His works were only exhibited in the Salon of 1789 and he bought a town-house in

place Vendôme The Place Vendôme (), earlier known as Place Louis-le-Grand, and also as Place Internationale, is a square in the 1st arrondissement of Paris, France, located to the north of the Tuileries Gardens and east of the Église de la Madeleine. It is ...

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, where he set up a free-entry museum for other artists. He died in Bouleaux ( Fontenailles). A piece of paper saying he was accepted at the Royal Academy for Painting and Sculpture, ''Achille blessé'', is located in the Musée Granet in

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