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French sculptor
Claude Ramey (29 October 1754 – 4 June 1838) was a French
sculptor.
Life
Ramey was born in
Dijon and received his art training in the École de Dessin in that city under
François Devosge. He then went to
Paris and studied Sculpture with
Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois. In 1782, he won the
Prix de Rome and was subsequently a pensionnaire at the
French Academy in
Rome from 1782 to 1786.
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Between 1806 and 1810 he was engaged on the
bas reliefs on the
Vendôme Column in Paris. In 1817, he was elected to the
Academie des Beaux Arts; amongst his students was
Jean-Pierre Cortot. In 1828, he produced a monumental statue of
Cardinal Richelieu which was installed at
Richelieu, Indre-et-Loire.
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Ramey died in Paris in June 1838. He was the father of
Étienne-Jules Ramey (1796–1852), also a sculptor.
Works
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Napoléon I in coronation robes (Paris,
Louvre Museum).
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Napoleon I evokes Minerva, Mercury and the deities of Peace etc (1811, relief, Louvre Museum).
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Sappho (1801, marble statue, Louvre Museum).
- L'Entrevue de
Tilsit (marble bas-relief, Paris,
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.
-
Naiad (statue,
Medici Fountain, Paris,
Jardin du Luxembourg).
-
Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of (1781-1824) (1810, marble statue,
Palace of Versailles).
-
Cardinal Richelieu (1828, Marble statue at Place Aristide-Briand,
Richelieu (
Indre-et-Loire).
- Minerve instruisant la jeunesse (1787, terracotta,
Musée de la Révolution française)
Gallery
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Minerve instruisant la jeunesse (c. 1787)
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Sappho (1801)
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Bust of Antoine-Cesar de Choiseul-Praslin, the Duke of Praslin (1808)
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Pediment of the north façade of the
Cour Carrée of the
Louvre (1811)
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Napoleon I in coronation robes (1813)
References
- This article incorporates text from the French Wikipedia,
Claude Ramey.
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