Pierre-Charles Simart

Pierre-Charles Simart (born in Troyes on 27 June 1806, died in Paris on 27 May 1857) was a French sculptor.

Pierre-Charles Simart; after
a bust by Francisque Duret

Pediment at the Pavillon de l’Horloge, Louvre, Paris

The son of a carpenter from Troyes in Champagne, Simart was the pupil of Antoine Desbœuf, Charles Dupaty, Jean-Pierre Cortot and James Pradier. In 1833, he won the first Prix de Rome for sculpture with a relief Le Vieillard et les enfants.

He was an elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1852.

Main works

La Poésie épique, statue, marble, Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg
La Philosophie, statue, marble, Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg
pediment of the Pavillon de l’Horloge, Louvre, Paris, with fellow sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye for architect Félix Duban, 1857
Napoleon in coronation robes, L'Hôtel national des Invalides, Paris
a chryselephantine (gold and ivory) recreation of the Athena Parthenos originally by classical sculptor Phidias, for patron Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes
four Hellenic friezes and ten reliefs at the Château de Dampierre, for architect Félix Duban, 1841–1843

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References

(in French) Emmanuel Schwartz, Les Sculptures de l'École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Histoire, doctrines, catalogue, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2003

External links

(in French) Works by Simart, on Insecula.com
(in French) Works by Simart, on Base Joconde

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