François Marie Suzanne
Illustration — Benjamin Franklin by François Marie Suzanne, Walters Art Museum, 1793 François Marie Suzanne (1750 – unknown) was a French sculptor. His works included a full-length statuette of Rousseau, a terra cotta Bacchanal (1776) and a terra cotta statuette of Benjamin Franklin (1793). From July to August 1779 he and Jacques-Louis David visited Naples, Herculaneum and Pompeii.
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François Marie Suzanne
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- Born
- 1750 · Paris.
- Died
- 1813 · former 3rd arrondissement of Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Teachers
- Jean-Baptiste d'Huez
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Benjamin Franklin by François Marie Suzanne, Walters Art Museum, 1793 François Marie Suzanne (1750 – unknown) was a French sculptor. His works included a full-length statuette of Rousseau, a terra cotta Bacchanal (1776) and a terra cotta statuette of Benjamin Franklin (1793). From July to August 1779 he and Jacques-Louis David visited Naples, Herculaneum and Pompeii.
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Training under Jean-Baptiste d'Huez is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Work by François Marie Suzanne is recorded in the collections of Musée Cognacq-Jay, Musée Carnavalet, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la ville de Paris and Walters Art Museum.
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- 1.Liste des élèves de l'école académique qui ont remporté les Grands prix en Archives de l'art français, 1858, p.303.
- 2.villamedici.it. Ficha de pensionado de FM Suzzanne.
- 3.Dorothy Johnson, 2006 p.11
- 4.Dorothy Johnson, 2006 p.64
- 5.artnet.com. estatuilla de Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
- 6.Base Joconde. Ficha de la estatuilla de B.Franklin.
- 7.Base Joconde. Ficha de la labandera.
- 8.Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, Volumen 54, The Society, 1935
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