Louis-Léopold Chambard

Louis-Léopold Chambard (25 August 1811 – 10 March 1895) was a French sculptor from Jura.

Modestie, 1861, by Louis-Léopold Chambard. East facade of the Cour Carrée in the Louvre palace, Paris.

He was born in Saint-Amour dans le Jura and was son of Claude Louis Joseph Marie Chambard, a merchant, After studying at the municipal school of arts in Lyon,[1] he continued at École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, under supervision of Pierre-Jean David d'Angers[2] and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres[3] and obtained the Prix de Rome in 1837 for his sculpture Marius sur les ruines de Carthage. His success allowed him to be resident from 1838 to 1843 at Villa Medici housing the French Academy in Rome. Chambard had an exposition of his sculptures at the 1841 Salon de Paris. Upon his return from Italy, he had other commissions notably for the Louvre. He died in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1895.

Main works
  • Marius sur les ruines de Carthage, 1837
  • Apollon et Coronis, 1842
  • La Parure, 1850
  • Une suppliante, 1852
  • L'Abondance, 1857
  • L'Inspiration, 1859
  • La Modestie, 1861, east facade of the Cour Carrée in the Palais du Louvre, Paris
  • Enfant portant une coquille, 1863
  • Mercure, 1866
  • La Vengeance, 1868
  • Jean-Jacques Cambacérès, 1876-1877 [4]
  • Rouget de l'Isle, 1880
  • Folette, 1882
  • Pompier qui sauve deux enfants d'un incendie, 1885
  • Androclès et le lion reconnaissant, 1888
  • Le Bûcheron, bronze with brown and golden brown patina

References
  1. Alfred Dantès, La Franche-Comté littéraire, scientifique, artistique: Recueil de notices sur les hommes les plus remarquables du Jura, du Doubs et de la Haute-Saône, Genève, 1971, p.27.
  2. Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au Grand palais des Champs-Élysées, 1861, Paris, p.LXVII.
  3. Georges Vigne, Les élèves d'Ingres, Musée Ingres, 1999, p.70.
  4. "La Cour de Cassation, Premier étage, Galerie des bustes" (in French). Cour de Cassation. Retrieved 2009-07-03.


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