Augustin-Alexandre Dumont
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Augustin-Alexandre Dumont (born 1801 in Paris; died 1884 in Paris) was a sculptor.
He was one of a long line of famous sculptors, the great-grandson of Pierre Dumont, son of Jacques-Edme Dumont and sister to Jeanne Louise Dumont Farrenc. In 1818, he started studies at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and moved to Rome afterwards. In 1823, he was awarded the Prix de Rome for his sculptures.
In 1830, he returned to France. In 1853 he became a teacher at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. A disease kept him from working after 1875.
[edit] Works
- Infant Bacchus Nurtured by the Nymph Leucothea (1830; Semur-en-Auxois, Musée Municipal)
- Statue of Nicolas Poussin for the Salle Ordinaire des Séances in the Palais de l'Institut de France, Paris (1835)
- Statue of Maréchal Thomas Bugeaud de la Piconnerie (~1850; version, Versailles)
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