Louis-Marie-Charles-Henri Mercier Dupaty (Bordeaux

Bordeaux

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 1771 — Paris

Paris

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 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 of François-Frédéric Lemot

François-Frédéric Lemot

François-Frédéric Lemot was a French sculptor, working in the Neoclassical style.-Biography:Lemot was born at Lyon....

 and obtained a Premier Grand Prix in sculpture, 1799, with his Pericles visiting Anaxagoras. On his return from the French Academy in Rome

French Academy in Rome

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 he was named to the Institut de France

Institut de France

The Institut de France is a French learned society, grouping five académies, the most famous of which is the Académie française.The institute, located in Paris, manages approximately 1,000 foundations, as well as museums and chateaux open for visit. It also awards prizes and subsidies, which...

, in 1816, then appointed a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts

École des Beaux-Arts refers to a number of influential art schools in France. The most famous is the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, now located on the left bank in Paris, across the Seine from the Louvre, in the 6th arrondissement. The school has a history spanning more than 350 years,...

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Works

• Portrait of Gen. Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc, (Salon of 1812
  Paris Salon
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  ), marble, standing figure over lifesize (Versailles
  Palace of Versailles
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  );
• Venus Genetrix
  Venus Genetrix
  Venus Genetrix may be:*An epithet of the goddess Venus*Venus Genetrix , the name for a type of sculptural depiction of the goddess thought to represent her under this epithet....
  
  (1810), marble Jardin des Plantes
  Jardin des Plantes
  The Jardin des Plantes is the main botanical garden in France. It is one of seven departments of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. It is situated in the 5ème arrondissement, Paris, on the left bank of the river Seine and covers 28 hectares .- Garden plan :The grounds of the Jardin des...
  
  , Paris;
• completed Antoine-Denis Chaudet
  Antoine-Denis Chaudet
  Antoine-Denis Chaudet was a French sculptor who worked in a neoclassical style.-Works:*Joseph Sold by his Brothers Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763–1810) was a French sculptor who worked in a neoclassical style.-Works:*Joseph Sold by his Brothers Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763–1810) was a French sculptor...
  
  's Infant Oedipus and Phorbas (1799), shown at the Salon of 1801, after Chaudet's death, in cooperation with Pierre Cartellier
  Pierre Cartellier
  Pierre Cartellier was a French sculptor.Born in Paris, he studied at the École Gratuite de Dessin in Paris and then in the studio of Charles-Antoine Bridan before attending the Académie Royale. During the French Revolution Cartellier was part of a team of sculptors who worked on the church of Ste...
  
  ;
• 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
  Equestrian sculpture
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   to Louis XIII (1816), completed by Jean-Pierre Cortot
  Jean-Pierre Cortot
  Jean-Pierre Cortot was a French sculptor.- Life :Cortot was born and died in Paris. He was educated at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and took the Prix de Rome in 1809, residing in the Villa Medici in Rome from 1810 to 1813.Cortot worked in an austere, correct, academic neo-classical style,...
  
   for Place des Vosges
  Place des Vosges
  The Place des Vosges is the oldest planned square in Paris.It is located in the Marais district, and it straddles the dividing-line between the 3rd and 4th arrondissements of Paris.- History :...
  
   and installed in 1825.
• Portrait bust of Vincent-Marie Viénot de Vaublanc, (1820), Dahesh Museum of Art.