Jean-Baptiste Stouf

Jean-Baptiste Stouf studied at Beaux-Arts de Paris. The recorded working language is French. The field of work recorded is art of sculpture. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Employment is recorded with Beaux-Arts de Paris. Work by Jean-Baptiste Stouf is recorded in the collections of Nationalmuseum, J. Paul Getty Museum and Getty Center.

• Illustration — Abel dying, reception piece for the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture, 1785, Louvre Museum • Illustration — Bust of Belisarius, 1785–91, Marble, J. Paul Getty Villa Stouf was a pupil of Guillaume Coustou the Younger, son of the great French baroque sculptor Guillaume Coustou. He went to the Academy of France in Rome in 1770, although the previous year he had only obtained second place at the Prix-de-Rome. After a stay of eight years, he was approved at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1784, and became an academician the following year. In 1786 the Comte d'Angiviller awarded him the commission for a Saint Vincent de Paul, to complete the series of statues of illustrious men at the Louvre Palace. On 8 September 1810, he succeeded Jean-Guillaume Moitte as professor of sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He participated in the Salon until 1819. Stouf's Bust of Belisarius at the J. Paul Getty Museum shows the general of Justinian, blinded, as a beggar, in a manner that suggests a philosopher or saint. His reception piece for the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1785, the Death of Abel, shows Cain's victim sprawled full-length on the ground (Louvre Museum). The Detroit Museum of Art has a terracotta sketch for a Hercules Vanquishing Two Centaurs.

Jean-Baptiste Stouf is recorded as sculptor.