Jean Gullaume Moitte, Study of Bones, Etching, 1771 for sale at Pamono

Description

Study of bones is an etching realized by Jean Gullaume Moitte in 1771. It belongs to the suite “Histoire naturelle, gnrale et particulire avec la du Cabinet du Roi”. Paris: Imprimerie Royale, 1749-1771. 24 x 19,5 cm. Artist’s signature engraved lower right. Good conditions, except yellowing due to time. Moitte ( 1746, Paris- 1810) was the son of Pierre-Etienne Moitte. He became the sculptor of Pigalle then Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. He won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1768 with David carrying the head of Goliath in triumph. He then entered the cole royale des lves protgs before a stay at the Rome, though it was cut short due to illness. 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 muse de Versailles, the tomb of Louis Desaix at Grand Saint-Bernard or that of Leclerc at the Panthon de Paris. He also designed and sculpted the pediment for the Panthon during the French Revolution, with the theme of the Fatherland crowning the civil and heroic virtue. He was a member of the Institut de France, the Lgion d’honneur and professor of the cole des Beaux-Arts de Paris.