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Pierre Petitot (11 December 1760, in Langres – 7 November 1840, in Paris) was a French sculptor.
Petitot initially studied under
Petitot initially studied under Claude François Devosge
Claude François Devosge (1697 - 5 December 1777) was a French sculptor and architect.
He was born in Gray, Haute-Saône, a member of the Devosge family of artists. His brother Philippe was also a sculptor, his grandson Anatole Devosge (1770–1 ...
at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon. In 1788 he won the first major sculpture prize founded by the States of Burgundy, which allowed him to travel and stay in Rome. His award-winning statue was on display in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon. After he returned to France, he was imprisoned on suspicion of being a counter-revolutionary, and was freed after the fall of Robespierre
The Coup d'état of 9 Thermidor or the Fall of Maximilien Robespierre refers to the series of events beginning with Maximilien Robespierre's address to the National Convention on 8 Thermidor Year II (26 July 1794), his arrest the next day, and ...
on 27 July 1794. He regularly exhibited at the Salon (Paris) until 1819. He worked with Pierre Cartellier and Joseph Espercieux. The Museum of Dijon has an oil on canvas portrait of him painted by the artist Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, and The Louvre also contains some of his works.
References
* Hoefer (Jean Chrétien Ferdinand) new general biography (Vol.39), published in 1853 1760 births 1840 deaths 18th-century French sculptors 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors People from Langres 19th-century French male artists 18th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub