Charles-François Lebœuf
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Charles-François Lebœuf, called Nanteuil (1792, Paris - 1865, Paris) was a French sculptor. He won the Grand Prix de Rome in Sculpture in 1817 with a gypsum figure of Agis
Agis I
Agis I was a legendary king of Sparta and eponym of the Agiad dynasty. He was the son of Eurysthenes, first monarch of this dynasty, which ruled the city along with the Eurypontids. His genealogy was traced through Aristodemus, Aristomachus, Cleodaeus and Hyllus all the way to Heracles, and he...

, dying by his own arms
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Works

  • Agis, dying on his own arms (1817), statue, plaster, Paris, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts
    École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts
    The École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts is the distinguished National School of Fine Arts in Paris, France.The École des Beaux-arts is made up of a vast complex of buildings located at 14 rue Bonaparte, between the quai Malaquais and the rue Bonaparte, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Près,...

  • Dying Eurydice http://cartelfr.louvre.fr/cartelfr/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=548 (1822), statue, marble, Paris, musée du Louvre
  • Portrait of the painter Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1827), bust, marble, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon : salon of 1827, number 1163
  • Portrait of the painter Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (1828), buste, marble, Paris, musée du Louvre
  • Alexander fighting http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/O0007439.html (1836), statue, stone, Paris, jardin des Tuileries, grand bassin rond, le grand carré
  • 3 bas-reliefs for the peristyle
    Peristyle
    In Hellenistic Greek and Roman architecture a peristyle is a columned porch or open colonnade in a building surrounding a court that may contain an internal garden. Tetrastoon is another name for this feature...

     of the Panthéon de Paris (1837) : The Apotheosis of the heroes who have died for the fatherland, framed by The Sciences and the Arts and The Magistracy.
  • Portrait of Charles the Bold, duc de Bourgogne (1433 - 1477) (1838), bust, plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
  • Portrait of Charlemagne
    Charlemagne
    Charlemagne was King of the Franks from 768 and Emperor of the Romans from 800 to his death in 814. He expanded the Frankish kingdom into an empire that incorporated much of Western and Central Europe. During his reign, he conquered Italy and was crowned by Pope Leo III on 25 December 800...

    , empereur d'Occident (742 - 814)
    (1840), larger-than-life size standing statue, marble, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
  • Portrait of Mathieu Molé
    Mathieu Molé
    Mathieu Molé was a French statesman.The son of Edouard Molé , who was for a time procureur-general, he was educated at the University of Orléans...

    , chancellor of France (1584 - 1656)
    (1840), larger-than-life size standing statue, plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
  • Death of Orestes
    Orestes (mythology)
    In Greek mythology, Orestes was the son of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon. He is the subject of several Ancient Greek plays and of various myths connected with his madness and purification, which retain obscure threads of much older ones....

    (1840), drawing, brown lead, Paris, musée du Louvre, département des Arts graphiques
  • Portrait of Henri LXI, prince de Reuss-Chlietz, général de brigade in the service of France (1784 - 1813) (1841), bust, plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
  • General Desaix
    Louis Charles Antoine Desaix
    Louis Charles Antoine Desaix was a French general and military leader. According to the usage of the time, he took the name Louis Charles Antoine Desaix de Veygoux.-Biography:...

    http://www.ville-clermont-ferrand.fr/aimer/histoire/FichesDesc.asp?key=71 (1848), bronze, Clermont-Ferrand
    Clermont-Ferrand
    Clermont-Ferrand is a city and commune of France, in the Auvergne region, with a population of 140,700 . Its metropolitan area had 409,558 inhabitants at the 1999 census. It is the prefecture of the Puy-de-Dôme department...

    , place de Jaude
  • Glorification of Saint Vincent de Paul, Paris, Church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul
    Saint-Vincent-de-Paul church, Paris
    The Church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul is a church in the 10e arrondissement of Paris dedicated to Saint Vincent de Paul. It gives its name to the Quartier Saint-Vincent-de-Paul around it.-History:...

    , circa 1850
  • Portrait of Jean-Luc-Sébastien-Bonaventure Carbuccia, général de brigade (1808 - 1854) (1858), buste, marble, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
  • Dying Eurydice http://www.insecula.com/oeuvre/O0007378.html (1862), statue (replica), bronze, Paris IIe arrondissement
    IIe arrondissement
    The 2nd arrondissement is one of the 20 arrondissements of Paris, the capital city of France. Located on the right bank of the River Seine, the 2nd arrondissement, together with the adjacent 8th and 9th arrondissements, hosts an important business district, centred on the Paris Opéra, which houses...

    , galerie Vivienne
  • The town of Beauvais
    Beauvais
    Beauvais is a city approximately by highway north of central Paris, in the northern French region of Picardie. It currently has a population of over 60,000 inhabitants.- History :...

    and the town of Lille
    Lille
    Lille is a city in northern France . It is the principal city of the Lille Métropole, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the country behind those of Paris, Lyon and Marseille. Lille is situated on the Deûle River, near France's border with Belgium...

    (1865), stone statues on the facade of the Gare du Nord
    Gare du Nord
    Paris Nord is one of the six large terminus railway stations of the SNCF mainline network for Paris, France. It offers connections with several urban transportation lines, including Paris Métro and RER...

    , Paris
  • King Charles X
    Charles X of France
    Charles X was known for most of his life as the Comte d'Artois before he reigned as King of France and of Navarre from 16 September 1824 until 2 August 1830. A younger brother to Kings Louis XVI and Louis XVIII, he supported the latter in exile and eventually succeeded him...

    , colossal statue, stone, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
    Palace of Versailles
    The Palace of Versailles , or simply Versailles, is a royal château in Versailles in the Île-de-France region of France. In French it is the Château de Versailles....

  • Portrait of Louis-Philippe I, king of the French (1773 - 1830), bust, plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
  • Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
    Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu
    Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu , generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French social commentator and political thinker who lived during the Enlightenment...

    , man of letters (1689 - 1755)
    , statue, plaster, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
  • Portrait of Étienne Jacques Joseph Alexandre Macdonald, duc de Tarente, maréchal de l'Empire
    Marshal of France
    The Marshal of France is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a military rank. It is granted to generals for exceptional achievements...

    (1765 - 1840)
    , larger-than-life size standing statue, marble, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon

Sources

Antoinette Ehrard, "Autour de la statue de Desaix par Nanteuil" in Annales historiques de la Révolution française, issue 324 "Numéro spécial Louis Charles Antoine Desaix. Officier du roi, Général de la République" (April-June 2001) ; Simone Hoog, (preface by Jean-Pierre Babelon, with the collaboration of Roland Brossard), Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I - Le musée, Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1993
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