{{Short description|French sculptor (1763–1810)}} {{More citations needed|date=October 2022}} {{infobox artist | name = Antoine-Denis Chaudet | image = Portrait of Antoine-Denis Chaudet by his wife Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet.jpg | caption = Portrait of Chaudet by his wife Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, c. 1802 | birth_date = 3 March 1763 | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|1810|4|19|1763|3|3|df=y}} | death_place = Paris, France | spouse = Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet | occupation = Sculptor }} '''Antoine-Denis Chaudet''' ({{IPA|fr|ɑ̃twan dəni ʃodɛ}}; 3 March 1763 – 19 April 1810) was a French sculptor who worked in the neoclassical style. He was born and died in Paris.<ref name="BnFauthorities">{{Cite web |url=https://data.bnf.fr/en/12456172/antoine-denis_chaudet/ |title=Antoine-Denis Chaudet (1763-1810) |access-date=2022-09-24 |website=Bibliothèque nationale de France}}</ref>
==Life and work== He began his artistic training as a student of Jean-Baptiste Stouf at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In 1784 his bas-relief, ''Joseph Sold into Slavery by His Brothers'', was awarded the Prix-de-Rome. This enabled him to study at the French Academy in Rome, where he spent four years studying ancient sculpture.
On his return to France in 1789, he was admitted to the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In 1801 he took part in illustrating an edition of the collected works of Jean Racine, published by Firmin Didot. Most of these were Biblical scenes. Around that same time, he married one of his students, Jeanne-Elisabeth Gabiou. He also collaborated with Pierre-François-Léonard Fontaine and Charles Percier on architectural projects.
In 1805, he became a member of the Institute of France. In February 1810, he took the post of Professor-Rector at the École des Beaux-Arts, replacing Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, who had died several years before. He died himself, only two months later.<ref> Chappey F., "Les Professeurs de l'École des Beaux-Arts (1794—1873)", In: ''Romantisme'', № 93, 1996, pgs.95—101 </ref> He was interred at the Montparnasse Cemetery. The Louvre holds collections of his sketches and manuscript notes.
In 1812, Napoleon transported Chaudet's marble statue of him to Moscow, to install it in a prominent place there. It is currently on display at the {{ill|Borodino Panorama Museum|ru|Бородинская панорама}}.<ref>Vlasov, Viktor Georgievich and Shode, Antoine-Denis, ''Styles in Art'', Vol.3, "Dictionary of names", 1997, pg.529 {{ISBN|5-88737-010-6}}</ref>
==Notable works== *''Peace'' (Pax, c. 1800 - 1810) *Busts of Emperor Napoleon and Empress Joséphine (exhibited 1811) *''L'Amour'' (Cupid and the Butterfly), completed posthumously by Pierre Cartellier (1817), (Louvre Museum) *''Joseph Sold Into Slavery by his Brothers'' (bas-relief, (1784) *''The infant Oedipus and Phorbas'' (1799). Shown at the Salon of 1801, it was completed by Pierre Cartellier (1757–1831) and Louis Dupaty (1771–1825) after Chaudet's death.
==Gallery== <gallery mode=packed heights=175> File:Cyparissus.jpg|Cyparissus mourns<br />his stag File:Relief Homer cour Carree Louvre.jpg|The poet Homer File:Oedipus Phorbas Chaudet Louvre N15538.jpg|Oedipus brought to life by Phorbas File:Chaudet l'Amour.JPG|Cupid catching a butterfly File:Lille Pdba chaudet belisaire.JPG|Blind Belisarius, resting File:Bust of Napoleon I, 1807-1809 CE. Marble, from Carrara, Italy. After Antoine-Denis Chaudet. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London.jpg|Bust of Napoleon File:Napoleon Chaudet Louvre OA10410.jpg|Napoleon in porcelain File:Compiègne, Château, ball room, statue Napoleon Bonaparte by Antoine-Denis Chaudet.JPG|Statue of Napoleon File:Napoléon Vendôme.jpg|Napoleon as<br /> Julius Caesar File:Peace by Antoine-Denis Chaudet (Louvre MR 3554) 01.jpg|The goddess Pax </gallery>
==References== <references />
==Further reading== * Isabelle Lemaistre, et al., ''Skulptur aus dem Louvre. Sculptures françaises néo-classiques. 1760-1830'', (exhibition catalog), Paris, Musée du Louvre, 1990, p. 313
==External links== {{Commons category|Antoine-Denis Chaudet}} * [https://www.wga.hu/bio_m/c/chaudet/biograph.html Emil Krén and Daniel Marx, ''Biography of Chaudet, Antoine-Denis''] @ the Web Gallery of Art
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