André-Jean Lebrun

André-Jean Lebrun
Born1737
Paris, France
Died1811
Vilnius, Lithuania
NationalityFrench
OccupationSculptor

André-Jean Lebrun (1737–1811) was a French sculptor.

Life

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André-Jean Lebrun, Kyrylo Rozumovskyi (1766), Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery.
Allegories of Justice and Peace (1771) in the Marble Room at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

André-Jean Lebrun was born in Paris in 1737. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Pigalle.[1] Lebrun won the Grand Prix of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1756.[2] He tied with the sculptor Pierre-François Berruer (1733–1797), winning a scholarship to the Villa Medici in Rome.[3] In Rome he made a number of statues for the church of San Carlo al Corso.[1] These included a statue of Judith. He also carved a bust of Pope Clement XIII (1768).[4] He became a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc and the Académie de Marseille.[2]

Lebrun was invited to Poland on the recommendation of Madame Geoffrin.[4] and was appointed chief sculptor to King Stanisław August Poniatowski.[5] He also worked in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he made a bust of the Empress Maria Feodorovna.[4] In 1804, he became professor of sculpture at Vilnius University.[4]

He died in Vilnius in 1811.[1]

Works

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The Louvre holds three drawings by Lebrun:[2]

  • Trois jeunes femmes drapées à l'antique, dansant devant un buste
  • Composition allégorique avec Athéna
  • Neptune tenant son trident, dans un médaillon orné

Sculpture includes:

References

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Citations

  1. ^ a b c Lebrun, André-Jean, Treccani.
  2. ^ a b c LEBRUN André Jean, Louvre.
  3. ^ Braquahaye 1876.
  4. ^ a b c d André-Jean Lebrun, Devoir-de-philosophie.
  5. ^ Brunaux 2014.

Sources

  • Braquahaye, Charles (1876), Conjectures sur la destination des corniches à têtes feuillées du musée de Bordeaux, suivi d'une notice sur Pierre Berruer, sculpteur, et sur les statues du grand-théâtre de Bordeaux
  • "André-Jean Lebrun". Devoir-de-philosophie.com (in French). Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-02.
  • Brunaux, Camille (2 May 2014). "André Jean Lebrun (1737–1811)". La Tribune de l'Art (in French). Retrieved 2014-07-02.
  • "André-Jean Le Brun (1737-1811)" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 2016. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  • "LEBRUN André Jean" (in French). Louvre. Retrieved 2014-07-02.
  • Lebrun, André-Jean (in Italian). Retrieved 2014-07-02. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
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  • André-Jean Lebrun in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website Edit this at Wikidata
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