Bronze Bust Of Napoleon By Antoine Denis Chaudet

Bronze bust representing Napoleon with the Legion of Honor 19th century cast iron of good quality signed on the back Chaudet (Antoine Denis CHAUDET) pretty brown patina. Antoine Denis Chaudet, born March 3, 1763 in Paris and died in the same city on April 19, 1810, is a French neoclassical sculptor and painter. Student of Jean-Baptiste Stouf and Étienne Gois senior, Antoine-Denis Chaudet won in 1784 a first prize in Rome for sculpture on the subject of Joseph sold by his brothers, and left for the French Academy in Rome. He stayed there for four years. On his return in 1789, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In 1805, he was named a member of the Institute. He was appointed professor at the Paris School of Fine Arts on February 1, 1810, replacing Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée the Elder, and his successor was François-Frédéric Lemot on September 8, 1810. His statue of Napoleon I as imperator erected in 1810 in Paris and crowning the column of the Grande Armée, Place Vendôme will be replaced in 1863 by a figure of Auguste Dumont. He is buried in Paris in the Montparnasse cemetery (4th division).