Pierre-Charles Simart
Illustration — Pierre-Charles Simart; after a bust by Francisque Duret • Illustration — Pediment at the Pavillon de l’Horloge, Louvre, Paris Pierre-Charles Simart (born in Troyes on 27 June 1806, died in Paris on 27 May 1857) was a French sculptor. The son of a carpenter from Troyes in Champagne, Simart was the pupil of Antoine Desbœuf, Charles Dupaty, Jean-Pierre Cortot and James Pradier. In 1833, he won the first Prix de Rome for sculpture with a relief Le Vieillard et les enfants.
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Pierre-Charles Simart
Chevignard · Le Magasin pittoresque, Paris, 1862. · Public domain
- Born
- 1806 · Troyes.
- Died
- 1857 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- sculptor · photographer
- Education
- French Academy in Rome
- Teachers
- Antoine Desboeufs · Charles Dupaty · Jean-Pierre Cortot
- Honours
- Prix de Rome · Officer of the Legion of Honour
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Pierre-Charles Simart; after a bust by Francisque Duret • Illustration — Pediment at the Pavillon de l’Horloge, Louvre, Paris Pierre-Charles Simart (born in Troyes on 27 June 1806, died in Paris on 27 May 1857) was a French sculptor. The son of a carpenter from Troyes in Champagne, Simart was the pupil of Antoine Desbœuf, Charles Dupaty, Jean-Pierre Cortot and James Pradier. In 1833, he won the first Prix de Rome for sculpture with a relief Le Vieillard et les enfants.
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He was an elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1852.
Pierre-Charles Simart studied at French Academy in Rome. Training under Antoine Desboeufs, Charles Dupaty and Jean-Pierre Cortot is recorded. Émilien Cabuchet is recorded as having studied under Pierre-Charles Simart. The recorded working language is French. Work by Pierre-Charles Simart is recorded in the collections of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Musée Carnavalet. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome and Officer of the Legion of Honour.
• La Poésie épique, statue, marble, Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg • La Philosophie, statue, marble, Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg • pediment of the Pavillon de l’Horloge, Louvre, Paris, with fellow sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye, 1857 • Statue of Napoleon in coronation robes and reliefs of Napoleon's achievements, Napoleon's tomb at Les Invalides, Paris • a chryselephantine (gold and ivory) recreation of the Athena Parthenos originally by classical sculptor Phidias, for patron Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes • four Hellenic friezes and ten reliefs at the Château de Dampierre, for architect Félix Duban, 1841–1843
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Pierre-Charles Simart born at Troyes.
1857
Pierre-Charles Simart died at Paris.
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Pierre-Charles Simart studied at French Academy in Rome. He trained under Antoine Desboeufs, Charles Dupaty and Jean-Pierre Cortot. Each of those relationships is stated by the authority record rather than inferred from style.
Pierre-Charles Simart received Prix de Rome and Officer of the Legion of Honour. Recorded as having received Prix de Rome and Officer of the Legion of Honour.
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