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André-Jean Lebrun

French sculptor (1737–1811) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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

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Life

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André-Jean Lebrun, Kyrylo Rozumovskyi (1766), Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery.
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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]

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Works

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:

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References

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