Antoine Denis CHAUDET (1763 – 1810)

Born March 3, 1763 in Paris and died in the same city on April 19, 1810, was a French neoclassical sculptor and painter. A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Stouf and Étienne Gois senior, Chaudet won a first Prix de Rome of sculpture in 1784 on the subject of ‘Joseph sold by his brothers’, and left for the French Academy in Rome. He will stay there for four years. On his return, in 1789, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In 1805, he was made a member of the Institute. He was appointed professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris on February 1, 1810, replacing Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée the Elder and will be succeeded by François-Frédéric Lemot on September 8, 18102. Its statue of Napoleon Ist 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.

MUSEUM :
– Amiens, Musée de Picardie: bustes de Napoléon Ier
– Château de Compiègne: Statue de Napoléon Bonaparte, 1804, marbre; Portrait de Napoléon Ier, 1811, buste
– Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts: Le Repos de Bélisaire aveugle, 1791
– Paris: Fontaine des Invalides, Mascarons, 1804.
– Musée du Louvre: Œdipe enfant rappelé à la vie par le berger Phorbas qui l’a détaché de l’arbre, 1801, groupe en marbre; L’Amour ramassant un papillon, Salon de 1817, statue en marbre terminée par Pierre Cartellier d’après un modèle en plâtre de 1802; La Paix, 1806-1807, statue en argent et en bronze doré; Œdipe et Phorbas; buste en marbre; Buste de l’architecte Julien-David Le Roy.
Panthéon de Paris, péristyle: L’Émulation de la gloire, 1801, groupe en pierre.
Château de Versailles, galerie des Batailles: Jacques François Dugommier, buste.
Vizille, musée de la Révolution française: Buste du consul romain Lucius Junius Brutus.