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Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet

French sculptor (1750–1818)

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Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet (born in Le Havre on 21 June 1750 and died in Paris on 15 April 1818), was a French sculptor, draftsman and printmaker.

On 21 August 1793, he was appointed director of public works of the Commune of Paris. On 7 July 1794, he was received at the Club des Jacobins after having given a bust of Guillaume Tell proposed by Jacques-Louis David on a project of Collot d'Herbois.

He then worked for the restoration of medieval and Renaissance sculptures for the Musée national des Monuments Français of Alexandre Lenoir, including the famous Fontaine de Diane.

Suzanne au bain, 1813, group, marble, Paris, Louvre

Hygie, déesse de la santé soignant Mars, le dieu de la guerre

Sully, statue, stone, Paris, palais Bourbon

La Liberté sous les ruines de la Bastille, 1793

La Force guidée par la raison ramène la Paix, le Commerce

La Paix faisant hommage à la Liberté des prémices des faits de ses bienfaits

Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre, Musée du Louvre. département des sculptures du Moyen Âge, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes. Sculpture française II. Renaissance et temps modernes. vol. 1 Adam - Gois, Paris, 1998

Catalogue d'exposition, Skulptur aus dem Louvre. Sculptures françaises néo-classiques. 1760 - 1830, Paris, museum of Louvre, 23 May - 3 September 1990

Simone Hoog, Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I- Le musée, Réunion des musées nationaux editions, Paris, 1993

Pierre Kjellberg, Le Nouveau guide des statues de Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1988

Exposition rétrospective des graveurs normands, exposition de portraits normands, catalogue, Rouen, Lecerf fils, 1911

Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website

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