Louis-Léopold Chambard

French sculptor

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

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

^ 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.
^ Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure, et lithographie des artistes vivants exposés au Grand palais des Champs-Élysées, 1861, Paris, p.LXVII.
^ Georges Vigne, Les élèves d'Ingres, Musée Ingres, 1999, p.70.
^ "La Cour de Cassation, Premier étage, Galerie des bustes" (in French). Cour de Cassation. Retrieved 2009-07-03.