Jean-Baptiste Giraud
Illustration — Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Giraud, after a drawing by Nicolas-André Monsiau Jean-Baptiste Giraud (1752 – 14 February 1830) was a French sculptor.
Also recorded as Jean Baptiste Giraud · Girod
Jean-Baptiste Giraud
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- Born
- 1752 · Aix-en-Provence.
- Died
- 1830 · Fontenailles.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Giraud, after a drawing by Nicolas-André Monsiau Jean-Baptiste Giraud (1752 – 14 February 1830) was a French sculptor.
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• Illustration — Achille mourant at the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence Giraud was born in Aix-en-Provence. Made rich by his uncle's inheritance, he spent eight years in Italy, to study the Ancient Arts there. His works were only exhibited in the Salon of 1789 and he bought a town-house in place Vendôme in Paris, where he set up a free-entry museum for other artists. He died in Bouleaux (Fontenailles). A piece of paper saying he was accepted at the Royal Academy for Painting and Sculpture, Achille blessé, is located in the Musée Granet in Aix-en-Provence.
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Jean-Baptiste Giraud is recorded as sculptor.
Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône, France), in the former priory of the Hospitallers of Saint John of Malta, the collections of the Granet museum, sculptures. Dying Achilles by Jean-Baptiste Giraud, marble.
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Aix-en-Provence (Bouches-du-Rhône, France), in the former priory of the Hospitallers of Saint John of Malta, the collections of the Granet museum, sculptures. Dying Achilles by Jean-Baptiste Giraud, marble.
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1752
Jean-Baptiste Giraud born at Aix-en-Provence.
1830
Jean-Baptiste Giraud died at Fontenailles.
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Aix-en-Provence.
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- 1.Philippe Nusbaumer, Jacques-Augustin-Catherine Pajou, 1766-1828, Le Pecq, Édition Nusbaumer, 1997
- 2.Dezobry et Bachelet, Dictionnaire de biographie, vol.1, Ch. Delagrave, 1878,
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- François Miel, Notice sur les deux Giraud, sculpteurs français, Paris, Société libre des beaux-arts, s.d. (1840).
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