Jean-Robert-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny

Jean-Robert-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny (9 December 1747 – 29 January 1810) was a French sculptor.[1] His son Jean-Marie-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny was a politician.

Life

After training in his initial birthplace of Rouen, he entered the école des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1774. He actively supported the French Revolution, sculpting busts of Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mirabeau and Jean-Barthélémy Le Couteulx de Canteleu. In 1809 he married the daughter of the sculpture dealer Roland. He died in Paris.[2]

Works

Louvre

Other

  • Voltaire standing and reading, statuette, Institut et musée Voltaire in Geneva, acquired in 1957 by the Pictet family and donated to the city of Geneva[3]
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau, collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

References

  1. ^ (in French) Jean-Robert-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny on base Joconde
  2. ^ (in French) Relevé généalogique on Geneanet
  3. ^ Gazette des Délices, musée Voltaire
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