Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet
Illustration — La Fontaine de Diane, restored by Beauvallet. Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet (born in Le Havre on 21 June 1750 and died in Paris on 15 April 1818), was a French sculptor, draftsman and printmaker. On 21 August 1793, he was appointed director of public works of the Commune of Paris.
Also recorded as Pierre Nicolas Beauvallet
Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet
Bralle (ingénieur hydraulique) et Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet (sculpteur) · Amaury-Duval, Les Fontaines de Paris, anciennes et nouvelles, Paris, Bance aîné, 1828. · Public domain
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- 1750 · Le Havre.
- Died
- 1818 · Paris.
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- French
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Illustration — La Fontaine de Diane, restored by Beauvallet. Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet (born in Le Havre on 21 June 1750 and died in Paris on 15 April 1818), was a French sculptor, draftsman and printmaker. On 21 August 1793, he was appointed director of public works of the Commune of Paris.
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On 7 July 1794, he was received at the Club des Jacobins after having given a bust of Guillaume Tell proposed by Jacques-Louis David on a project of Collot d'Herbois. He then worked for the restoration of medieval and Renaissance sculptures for the Musée national des Monuments Français of Alexandre Lenoir, including the famous Fontaine de Diane.
• Suzanne au bain, 1813, group, marble, Paris, Louvre • Hygie, déesse de la santé soignant Mars, le dieu de la guerre • Sully, statue, stone, Paris, palais Bourbon • La Liberté sous les ruines de la Bastille, 1793 • La Force guidée par la raison ramène la Paix, le Commerce • La Paix faisant hommage à la Liberté des prémices des faits de ses bienfaits • La Tyrannie renversée, 1800
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1750
Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet was born in 1750 at Le Havre.
1818
Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet died in 1818 at Paris.
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- 1.Notice de Suzanne surprise au bain, sur collections.louvre.fr.
- 2.Le Narcisse de Beauvallet. Grande Galerie. 70. printemps 2025.
- 3.« Les sépultures successives d'Héloïse et Abélard », pierre-abelard.com, Association culturelle Pierre Abélard, consulté le 31 octobre 2021.
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- Exposition rétrospective des graveurs normands, exposition de portraits normands, catalogue, Rouen, Lecerf fils, 1911.
- Pierre Kjellberg, Le Nouveau guide des statues de Paris, Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1988.
- Collectif, Skulptur aus dem Louvre. Sculptures françaises néo-classiques. 1760-1830, [catalogue d'exposition], Paris, musée du Louvre, 1990.
- Simone Hoog, préface de Jean-Pierre Babelon, avec la collaboration de Roland Brossard, Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I- Le musée, Paris, Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993.
- Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre (sous la direction de Jean-René Gaborit, avec la collaboration de Jean-Charles Agboton, Hélène Grollemund, Michèle Lafabrie, Béatrice Tupinier-Barillon), Musée du Louvre. département des sculptures du Moyen Âge, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes. Sculpture française II. Renaissance et temps modernes, vol. 1 « Adam- Gois », Paris, Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1998.
- Marie Jeune. Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet. La Révolution en Haute-Normandie (1789-1802). Rouen. P'tit Normand. 1987. 2906258180. 464. 225-227.
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