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ID: 500008594
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500008594

 

Record Type: Person
Moitte, Jean Guillaume (French sculptor and draftsman, 1746-1810)

Note: A sculptor and draftsman who worked in the Neoclassical style and, although not that well-known, to be one of France most talented and committed exponents of that style. In 1768 he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture and lived in Rome from October 1771 to May 1773. In 1783 Moitte was accepted by the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and received commissions for several statues and low reliefs (1784) for the Hotel de Salm (now Palais de la Légion d'Honneur). From 1786 to 1788, Moitte participated in the decoration of the barrières (toll-houses) in Paris, constructed by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. His only royal commission was for a statue of Jean-Dominique Cassini, one of the more successful works in a series of 'great men.' The plaster for this sculpture was exhibited at the Salon of 1789 and its pose was likely inspired by that of Jacques-Louis David's "Brutus," also exhibited at the same Salon. In 1792-1793 he sculpted a new pediment for the Panthéon, depicting the "Motherland Bestowing Crowns on Virtue and on Genius" (destroyed). In 1805 he sculpted a monument to Général Louis Desaix for the chapel of the hospice of Grand-Saint-Bernard and a bronze relief for the column of the Grande Armée near Boulogne-sur-Mer. Comment on works: Sculptor

Names:
Moitte, Jean Guillaume (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
Jean Guillaume Moitte (V,display)
Moitte, Jean-Guillaume (V)
Jean-Guillaume Moitte (U)
M. Moette (LU,U)
Moitte (LU,U)
Moitte fils Sculpteur (LU,U)
Moitte, le Sculpteur (LU,U)

Nationalities:
French (preferred)
Parisian

Roles:
artist (preferred)
sculptor
draftsman
printmaker
engraver (printmaker)
illustrator
owner

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)
Died:  Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   Paris (Île-de-France, France) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
child of ....  Moitte, Pierre Etienne  
..............  (French engraver, 1722-1780) [500017750]
sibling of ....  Moitte, Alexandre  
..................  (French painter, 1750-1828) [500010997]
sibling of ....  Moitte, Auguste  
..................  (French engraver, 1748-ca. 1790) [500043386]
sibling of ....  Moitte, Elisabeth-Mélanie  
..................  (French engraver, active 18th century) [500043387]
sibling of ....  Moitte, Jean-Baptiste-Philibert  
..................  (French architect, 1754-1808) [500008559]
sibling of ....  Moitte, Rose Angélique  
..................  (French engraver, active 18th century) [500117162]
student of ....  Lemoyne, Jean-Baptiste, the younger  
..................  (French sculptor, 1704-1778) [500015004]
student of ....  Pigalle, Jean Baptiste  
..................  (French sculptor, 1714-1785) [500024799]
teacher of ....  Gatteaux, Jacques-Edouard  
..................  (French sculptor and medalist, 1788-1881) [500006455]
teacher of ....  Gerard, Antoine-François  
..................  (French sculptor, 1760-1843) [500332811]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Moitte, Jean Guillaume (I)

Biographies:
(French sculptor and draftsman, 1746-1810) ..... [VP Preferred]
(French sculptor, printmaker, 1746-1810) ..... [BHA]
(French sculptor, book illustrator, and engraver, 1746-1810) ..... [GRLPA]
(French artist, 1746-1810) ..... [WCP]
(French, 1746-1810) ..... [JPGM]
(French artist, 1746-1810) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(French artist, 1746-1810) ..... [PROV]
(French owner, 1746-1810) ..... [PROV]
(French sculptor, 1746-1810) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Jean Guillaume Moitte ........ [PROV, VP]
...........................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
...........................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Jean-Guillaume Moitte ........ [PROV, VP]
.............................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
M. Moette ........ [PROV]
....................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Moitte ........ [PROV]
...............  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Moitte fils Sculpteur ........ [PROV]
..........................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Moitte, Jean Guillaume ........ [BHA Preferred, GRLPA Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
.............................................  Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976) 7, 457
.............................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
.............................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 56585
.............................................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
.............................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Moitte, Jean-Guillaume ........ [JPGM Preferred, PROV, VP]
...............................................  Getty Museum, Authority file (2003-)
...............................................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 17 Oct 2003
...............................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Moitte, le Sculpteur ........ [PROV]
........................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Subject: ........ [BHA, Gallery Systems, GRLPA, JPGM, PROV, RKD, VP, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Bénézit, Dictionnaire des Peintres (1976) 7, 457
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: nr93021358
....................  Getty Museum, Authority file (2003-)
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 17 Oct 2003
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: nr93021358
....................  Mackay, Western Sculptors in Bronze (1977)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 56585
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q3172432
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [PROV, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Grove Dictionary of Art online (1999-2002) accessed 17 Oct 2003
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
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