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(3) Jacques-Edme Dumont
(b Paris, 10 April 1761; d Paris, 21 Feb 1844). Son of (2) Edme Dumont. In 1777 he was admitted to the Ecole des Elèves Protégés. As a student of Augustin Pajou, he won the Prix de Rome in 1788, by which time he had already executed a number of independent works, including the relief of the Discovery of the Relics of SS Gervase and Protase (marble, 1783; Sées Cathedral). He was in Italy from 1788 to 1793 and then returned to France in the hope of receiving commissions from the Revolutionary Convention. In this he was disappointed and turned instead to the production of statuettes and medallions (e.g. Lons-le-Saunier, Mus. B.-A.; Semur-en-Auxois, Mus. Mun.). He fared better under the Consulate and the Empire, receiving commissions for, among other works, a monumental statue of Louis IV (1801; St Denis Abbey); a statue of General François-Séverin Marceau (untraced; sketch models Paris, Louvre); and a seated statue of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (stone, 1808; Paris, Pal. Bourbon). He continued in official favour during the Restoration, producing a monument to Chrétien-Guillaume de Malesherbes (1819; Paris, Pal. Justice) and a statue of General Charles Pichegru (destr. 1830). He was also active as a portrait sculptor. Examples of his work in this genre are the tenderly realistic bust of his mother, Marie-Françoise Berthault (plaster; Paris, Louvre) and the severely Neo-classical bust of the Empress Marie-Louise (1810; priv. col.).
Part of the Dumont family
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