Jean-Jacques Feuchère (24 August 1807 – 26 July 1852) was a French
sculptor
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.
He was a student of
Jean-Pierre Cortot
Jean-Pierre Cortot (20 August 1787 – 12 August 1843) was a French neoclassical sculptor.
Life
Cortot was born and died in Paris. He was educated at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and won the Prix de Rome in 1809, residing in the Vi ...
, and among his students was
Jacques-Léonard Maillet.
Selected works
![Law place du Palais-Bourbon Paris](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ea/Law_place_du_Palais-Bourbon_Paris.jpg)
* Relief panel ''Le Pont d'Arcole'',
Arc de Triomphe
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, Paris, 1833–1834
* ''Satan'', bronze; dated 1833 (
Musée du Louvre
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). Another example is in the collections of the
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium
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, Brussels.
* pediment sculpture, Church of St. Denys du Saint-Sacrement in Paris, 3rd arrondissement, for architect
Étienne-Hippolyte Godde, 1835
* ''Portrait statue of the Marquis of Stafford'', bronze 1837. (
Dunrobin Castle
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)
* ''Amazon Taming a Horse'', bronze; dated 1843. (
Musée du Louvre
The Louvre ( ), or the Louvre Museum ( ), is the world's most-visited museum, and an historic landmark in Paris, France. It is the home of some of the best-known works of art, including the ''Mona Lisa'' and the ''Venus de Milo''. A central l ...
); an undated bronze is at the
Cleveland Museum of Art
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.
* ''La Loi'' (The Law), Place du
Palais-Bourbon
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, Paris. Installed in 1854
* ''Arab Warrior'' on the
Pont d'Iéna
Pont d'Iéna ("Jena Bridge") is a bridge spanning the River Seine in Paris. It links the Eiffel Tower on the Left Bank to the district of Trocadéro on the Right Bank.
History
In 1807, by an imperial decree issued in Warsaw, Napoleon I order ...
, Paris
* ''Fontaine Cuvier'', rue Cuvier, Paris
* ''Seated Michelangelo'', bronze
* ''Jeanne d'Arc'', Hôtel de ville, Rouen
* ''La Madeleine'', Paris
References
External links
Jean-Jacques Feuchère on-line*
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French architectural sculptors
1807 births
1852 deaths
19th-century French sculptors
French male sculptors
19th-century French male artists