Charles-François Lebœuf
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Charles-François Lebœuf, called Nanteuil (1792, Paris - 1865, Paris) was a French sculptor. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in Sculpture in 1817 with a gypsum figure of Agis, dying by his own arms.
[edit] Works
- General Desaix [1] (1848), bronze, Clermont-Ferrand, place de Jaude
- Dying Eurydice [2] (1822), statue, marble, Paris, musée du Louvre
- Dying Eurydice [3] (1862), statue (replica), bronze, Paris IIe arrondissement, galerie Vivienne
- Portrait of the painter Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1828), buste, marble, Paris, musée du Louvre
- Alexander fighting [4] (1836), statue, stone, Paris, jardin des Tuileries, grand bassin rond, le grand carré
- The town of Beauvais and the town of Lille (1865), statue, stone, Paris, gare du Nord, façade
- Agis, dying on his own arms (1817), statue, plaster, Paris, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
- Glorification of Saint Vincent de Paul, Paris, Church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul
- King Charles X, colossal statue, stone, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- Portrait of Charles the Bold, duc de Bourgogne (1433 - 1477) (1838), bust, plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- Portrait of Jean-Luc-Sébastien-Bonaventure Carbuccia, général de brigade (1808 - 1854) (1858), buste, marble, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- Portrait of Charlemagne, empereur d'Occident (742 - 814) (1840), larger-than-life size standing statue, marble, 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 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), statue, plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- Portrait of Henri LXI, prince de Reuss-Chlietz, général de brigade in the service of France (1784 - 1813) (1841), bust, plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- Portrait of Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald, duc de Tarente, maréchal de l'Empire (1765 - 1840), larger-than-life size standing statue, marble, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
- Portrait of the painter Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1827), bust, marble, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon : salon of 1827, number 1163
- Death of Orestes (1840), drawing, brown lead, Paris, musée du Louvre, département des Arts graphiques
- 3 bas-reliefs for the peristyle 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.
[edit] Sources
- (French) Antoinette Ehrard, "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) ;
- (French) Simone Hoog, (preface by Jean-Pierre Babelon, with the collaboration of Roland Brossard), Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I - Le musée, Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1993
