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. 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.
Main works
edit- 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
References
edit- Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, 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, 1998
- Catalogue d'exposition, Skulptur aus dem Louvre. Sculptures françaises néo-classiques. 1760 - 1830, Paris, museum of Louvre, 23 May - 3 September 1990
- Simone Hoog, Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I- Le musée, Réunion des musées nationaux editions, Paris, 1993
- Pierre Kjellberg, Le Nouveau guide des statues de Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1988
- Exposition rétrospective des graveurs normands, exposition de portraits normands, catalogue, Rouen, Lecerf fils, 1911
External links
edit- Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
