He worked for the king's goldsmith Auguste and participated in decorative works for monuments in capital. He was commissioned to produce sculptures of generals who had died in battle such as one of
Custine for the musée de
Versailles, the tomb of
Louis Desaix at
Grand Saint-Bernard or that of
Leclerc at the
Panthéon de Paris. He also designed and sculpted the pediment for the Panthéon during the
French Revolution, with the theme of the Fatherland crowning the civil and heroic virtues[1] Moitte and
Philippe-Laurent Roland were the main sculptors for the exterior of the
hôtel de Salm.
Thucydides, Herodotus, Egyptian divinity and an Inca (1806), stone reliefs, Paris,
palais du Louvre, cour Carrée,
attic of the west façade, to the right of the Pavillon de l’Horloge
Hôtel de Salm, Palais de la Légion d’honneur
Two Renommée, bas-reliefs, stone, main gate
Festival of the
Pales, bas-relief, stone, at the base of the courtyard
Five bas-reliefs and six allegorical statues, stone, corps central quai Anatole-France
Ceres, Mars and Diana, terracotta studies for statues on the coupole
Simone Hoog, (preface by Jean-Pierre Babelon, in collaboration with Roland Brossard), Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I- Le musée, Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1993.
Pierre Kjellberg, Le Nouveau guide des statues de Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1988.
Catalogue d’exposition, Skulptur aus dem Louvre. Sculptures françaises néo-classiques. 1760 - 1830, Paris, musée du Louvre, 23 mai - 3 septembre 1990.