Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet (born in

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on 21 June 1750 and died in

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on 15 April 1818), 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 ...

, draftsman and

printmaker Printmaking is the process of creating work of art, artworks by printing, normally on paper, but also on fabric, wood, metal, and other surfaces. "Traditional printmaking" normally covers only the process of creating prints using a hand proce ...

. On 21 August 1793, he was appointed director of public works of the Commune of Paris. On 7 July 1794, he was received at the

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after having given a bust of Guillaume Tell proposed by

Jacques-Louis David Jacques-Louis David (; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassicism, Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s, his cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in ...

on a project of

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. He then worked for the restoration of medieval and

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sculptures for the Musée national des Monuments Français of

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, including the famous ''Fontaine de Diane''.

Main works

* ''Suzanne au bain'', 1813, group, marble, Paris,

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* ''Hygie, déesse de la santé soignant Mars, le dieu de la guerre'' * ''Sully'', statue, stone, Paris,

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* ''La Liberté sous les ruines de la Bastille'', 1793 * ''La Force guidée par la raison ramène la Paix'', le Commerce * ''La Paix faisant hommage à la Liberté des prémices des faits de ses bienfaits'' * ''La Tyrannie renversée'', 1800

References

* Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, ''Musée du Louvre. département des sculptures du Moyen Âge, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes. Sculpture française II. Renaissance et temps modernes. vol. 1 Adam - Gois'', Paris, 1998 * Catalogue d'exposition, ''Skulptur aus dem Louvre. Sculptures françaises néo-classiques. 1760 - 1830'', Paris, museum of Louvre, 23 May - 3 September 1990 * Simone Hoog, ''Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I- Le musée'', Réunion des musées nationaux editions, Paris, 1993 * Pierre Kjellberg, ''Le Nouveau guide des statues de Paris'', La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1988 * ''Exposition rétrospective des graveurs normands, exposition de portraits normands, catalogue'', Rouen, Lecerf fils, 1911

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