- Louis Dupaty
Louis Charles Marie Henri Mercier Dupaty (
Bordeaux 1771 —Paris 1825) was a French sculptor.The eldest son of the magistrate Jean-Baptiste Mercier Dupaty and brother of the writer and "académicien"
Emmanuel Mercier Dupaty , he was destined for the magistrature but preferred the arts. He studied in the atelier ofFrançois-Frédéric Lemot and obtained a " Premier Grand Prix" in sculpture, 1799, with his "Pericles visiting Anaxagoras". On his return from theFrench Academy in Rome he was named to theInstitut de France , in 1816, then appointed a professor at theÉcole des Beaux-Arts .Works
* "Portrait of Gen.
Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc ," (Salon of 1812), marble, standing figure over lifesize (Versailles);
* "Venus Genetrix " (1810), marbleJardin des Plantes , Paris;
* completedAntoine-Denis Chaudet 's "Infant Oedipus and Phorbas" (1799), shown at the Salon of 1801, after Chaudet's death, in cooperation withPierre Cartellier ;
* "Venus before Paris" (1822), marble, over lifesize figure, Versailles
* "Cadmus and the Dragon"
* "Dying Biblis changed into a Spring" (1819), marble,Musée du Louvre
* "Ajax defying the Gods"
* Model for the equestrian monument to Louis XIII (1816), completed byJean-Pierre Cortot forPlace des Vosges and installed in 1825.
* Portrait bust ofVincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc , (1820), Dahesh Museum of Art. [ [http://daheshmuseum.org/collection/popup/dupaty_comte.html Illustrated.] ]Notes
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