François Dumont (; 1688 – 14 December 1726) was a French sculptor.

Early life

Dumont was the son of the sculptor Pierre Dumont and Marie Mercier. He was a native of the

Place Saint-Sulpice The Place Saint-Sulpice is a large public square, dominated on its eastern side by the Saint-Sulpice (Paris), Church of Saint-Sulpice. It was built in 1754 as a tranquil garden in the Latin Quarter, Paris, Latin Quarter of the 6th arrondissement ...

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, and the brother of

Jacques Dumont le Romain Jacques Dumont called "le Romain" (10 May 1704 — 17 February 1781), was a French artist, who worked in painting, engraving and drawing. He was called "the Roman" from his youthful residence at Rome and to distinguish him from other artists named ...

(1704-1781), painter. In 1709 he was awarded the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

. Approved the previous year, François Dumont was received on 24 September 1712, at the

Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture The Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture (; ) was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abolished in 1793 during the French Revolution. I ...

(Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture).

Marriage

On November 21, 1712, Dumont married: "In the Church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois in the presence of his parents, miss Anne-Françoise Coypel, aged 24 years, daughter of the late

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(1628-1707), ''vivant peintre ordinaire du Roi'' and Anne Françoise Perrin (ca. 1665-1728). Present, his parents, Philippe Sauvage, secretary of the Marquis de La Chastre, residing rue du Mail, parish St. Eutache, cousin of the groom, Françoise Perrin, mother of the bride, Antoine Coypel, painter to the king, keeps paintings and drawings by Her Majesty, the first painter of the Duc d'Orléans remaining galleries of the Louvre, brother of the bride, Christmas Nicolas Coypel, son of late Noel Coypel remaining street Nettles of this parish, brother mariée that signed".

Career

Dumont's son Edme Dumont, and his grandson Jacques-Edme Dumont also became sculptors.

Lambert-Sigisbert Adam Lambert-Sigisbert Adam (10 October 1700) was a French sculptor born in 1700 in Nancy. The eldest son of sculptor Jacob-Sigisbert Adam, he was known as Adam l’aîné ("the elder") to distinguish him from his two sculptor brothers Nicolas-Séba ...

was one of his students as well. He executed for the

Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris The Church of Saint-Sulpice () is a Catholic church in Paris, France, on the east side of Place Saint-Sulpice, in the 6th arrondissement. Only slightly smaller than Notre-Dame and Saint-Eustache, it is the third largest church in the city. ...

four statues: St. Peter, St. Paul, St. John and St. Joseph. He was the first sculptor of

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, for which he worked in

Nancy, France Nancy is the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the northeastern Departments of France, French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle. It was the capital of the Duchy of Lorraine, which was Lorraine and Barrois, annexed by France under King Louis X ...

References

* Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre (under the direction of Jean-René Gaborit, with the collaboration of Jean-Charles Agboton Helen Grollemund Michele Lafabrie Beatrice Tupinier-Barillon), Louvre Museum. Department of sculptures from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and modern times. French Sculpture II. Renaissance and modern times. flight. 1 Adam - Gois, Éditions de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Paris, 1998 * Pierre Kjellberg, New Guide statues of Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1988 * Leon Charvet, Meeting Corporate Fine Arts departments, the Ministry of National Education, Paris, 1890 1688 births 1729 deaths 18th-century French sculptors French male sculptors Sculptors from Paris 18th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub