Charles-François Lebœuf, called Nanteuil (9 August 1792 – 1 November 1865) was a French

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.Lemaistre 1998.

Career

Born in Paris, he studied with

Pierre Cartellier Pierre Cartellier (2 December 1757 – 12 June 1831) was a French sculptor. Biography Born in Paris, he studied at the École Gratuite de Dessin in Paris and then in the studio of Charles-Antoine Bridan before attending the Académie Roya ...

at the

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, winning the

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in Sculpture in 1817 with a gypsum figure of ''

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, Dying by His Own Arms''. The prize included a period of study at the

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of the

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, where Nanteuil carved the marble statue ''Dying Eurydice'' (1822), which he exhibited in Paris in his highly successful debut at the Salon of 1824. The statue is now in the

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. This work later inspired Auguste Clésinger's ''Woman Bitten by a Snake'' (1847, Musée d'Orsay). Nanteuil received many commissions from the French government, including one for a group entitled ''Commerce and Industry'' at the

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in the

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, which was inspired by the first-century sculpture ''

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''. Other commissioned works include a seated statue of

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(1840,

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's Museum of French History at the Palace of Versailles) and the bronze commemorative statue of General Desaix (1844, located at the Place de Jaude in ). His work was also incorporated into the decorations at the Gare du Nord, the Palais Garnier, and the

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(when it was rebuilt during the

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). Nanteuil's most important ecclesiastical works are two

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sculpture groups in stone, ''Hommage to the Virgin'' (1830, Church of Notre Dame de Lorette, Paris) and the ''Glorification of Saint Vincent de Paul'' (1846,

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), which reveal the influence of

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of the early

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and of sculptures from

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and the

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. Nanteuil died in Paris.

List of works

* ''Agis, Dying on His Own Arms'' (1817), statue, plaster, Paris,

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* ''Dying Eurydice'' (1822), statue, marble, Paris,

* ''Portrait of the painter

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'' (1827), bust, marble, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon : Salon of 1827, number 1163 * ''Portrait of the painter

'' (1828), bust, marble, Paris, Musée du Louvre * Pediment sculpture of the Church Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, Paris (1830) * ''

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fighting'' (1836), statue, stone, Paris,

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, grand bassin rond, le grand carré''Alexandre combattant''
at insecula.com * 3

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s for the

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of the Panthéon de Paris (1837) : ''The Apotheosis of the heroes who have died for the fatherland'', framed by ''The Sciences and the Arts'' and ''The Magistracy''. * ''Portrait of

Charles the Bold Charles I (Charles Martin; german: Karl Martin; nl, Karel Maarten; 10 November 1433 – 5 January 1477), nicknamed the Bold (German: ''der Kühne''; Dutch: ''de Stoute''; french: le Téméraire), was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. ...

, duc de Bourgogne (1433 - 1477)'' (1838), bust, plaster, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon * ''Portrait of

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, empereur d'Occident (742 - 814)'' (1840), larger-than-life size standing statue, marble, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon * ''Portrait of Mathieu Molé, chancellor of France (1584 - 1656)'' (1840), larger-than-life size standing statue, plaster, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon * '' Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu, man of letters (1689 - 1755)'' (1840), statue, plaster, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon * ''Death of

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'' (1840), drawing, brown lead, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques * ''Portrait of Henri LXI, prince de Reuss-Chlietz,

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in the service of France (1784 - 1813)'' (1841), bust, plaster, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon * '' General Desaix'' (1848), bronze,

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, Place de Jaude * ''Glorification of

Saint Vincent de Paul Vincent de Paul, CM (24 April 1581 – 27 September 1660), commonly known as Saint Vincent de Paul, was a Occitan French Catholic priest who dedicated himself to serving the poor. In 1622 Vincent was appointed a chaplain to the galleys. After ...

'', Paris, Church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, circa 1850 * ''Portrait of Jean-Luc-Sébastien-Bonaventure Carbuccia,

(1808 - 1854)'' (1858), bust, marble, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon * ''Dying Eurydice'' (1862), statue (replica), bronze,

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* ''The town of Beauvais'' and ''the town of

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'' (1865), stone statues on the facade of the Gare du Nord, Paris * ''King

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'', colossal statue, stone, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon * ''Portrait of Louis-Philippe I, king of the French (1773 - 1830)'', bust, plaster, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon * ''Portrait of Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald, Duke of Tarente, Maréchal de l'Empire (1765 - 1840)'', larger-than-life size standing statue, marble, Versailles, Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon

References

Notes Sources * Ehrard, Antoinette (2001). "Autour de la statue de Desaix par Nanteuil" ''in'' ''Annales historiques de la Révolution française'' . issue 324 "Numéro spécial Louis Charles Antoine Desaix. Officier du roi, Général de la République" (April–June 2001) . * Hoog, Simone (1993). ''Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I - Le musée'', (preface by Jean-Pierre Babelon, with the collaboration of Roland Brossard) . Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris. * Lemaistre, Isabelle (1998). "Nanteuil eboeuf Charles-François" in Turner 1998, vol. 22, p. 465. * Turner, Jane, editor (1998). ''

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'', reprinted with minor corrections, 34 volumes. New York: Grove. . Other sources * Lami, Stanislas (1914–1921). ''Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'École française au XIXe siècle'' (4 volumes). Paris: H. Champion
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Leboeuf, Charles-Francois 1792 births 1865 deaths French architectural sculptors 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors Prix de Rome for sculpture 19th-century French male artists