{{Infobox person | name = Romain-Vincent Jeuffroy | image = Boilly-Jeuffroy.jpg | image_size = 200px | alt = | caption = Portrait by Julien-Léopold Boilly | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1749|07|16|df=y}} | birth_place = Rouen, France | death_date = {{Death date and age|1826|08|02|1749|07|16|df=y}} | death_place = Bas-Prunay, near Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France | other_names = | occupation = Engraver | known_for = }} '''Romain-Vincent Jeuffroy''' (16 July 1749 – 2 August 1826) was a French gemstone engraver and medalist.<ref>{{cite book |last=Forrer |first=L. |title=Biographical Dictionary of Medallists |chapter=Jeuffroy, Romain Vincent |publisher=Spink & Son Ltd |location=London |volume=III |year=1907 |pages=71–75}}</ref> He was active before and during the French Revolution and the First French Empire, and made many medals for Napoleon.<ref>{{cite book |last=Forrer |first=L. |title=Biographical Dictionary of Medallists |chapter=Jeuffroy, Romain Vincent |publisher=Spink & Son Ltd |location=London |volume=VII |year=1923 |pages=479–480}}</ref>
==Life== thumb|1803 medal of Napoleon Romain-Vincent Jeuffroy was born on 16 July 1749 in Rouen.{{sfn|Tassinari|2013|p=35}} He learned his art without a master, imitating an engraved stone that had come into his hands. He made his own tools. He became known, and was sponsored to go to Rome to perfect his art.{{sfn|Hossard|Delmas|2013}} In 1770 Jeuffroy went to Rome and then to Naples, where he lived for ten years. He worked with Johannes Pichler.{{sfn|Tassinari|2013|p=35}} He produced many engraved or embossed works, including much work for the French ambassador, the Marquis Jean-Baptiste-Charles-François de Clermont-d'Amboise.{{sfn|Dussieux|1850|pp=390–391}}
After returning to France he made Paris his home.{{sfn|Hossard|Delmas|2013}} After Jacques Guay (1715–1787) stopped working, Charles-Claude Flahaut de la Billaderie (1730–1809) tried to revive gemstone engraving. He promised to give the work to Jeuffroy, but did not keep his engagement.{{sfn|Dussieux|1850|pp=390–391}} Jeuffroy engraved several portraits, which made his reputation. In 1790 he accepted an offer from King Stanislaus II of Poland and moved to Warsaw.{{sfn|Dussieux|1850|pp=390–391}}
Jeuffroy returned to Paris and was appointed a member of the Institut de France in 1803.{{sfn|Dussieux|1850|pp=390–391}} He created a commemorative medal for Napoleon entitled "The Treaty of Amiens Broken by England, May 1803".{{sfn|Hernon|2013|p=359}} Jeuffroy was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour.{{sfn|Hennin|1826|p=647}} In 1805 Napoleon founded a school of gemstone engraving, headed by Jeuffroy.{{sfn|Bourhis|1989|p=129}} The school was established in the deaf-mute institution.{{sfn|Pradier|1984|p=5}} In 1816 Jeuffroy was made a member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in the engraving section.{{sfn|Hossard|Delmas|2013}}
Jeuffroy died on 2 August 1826 in Bas-Prunay near Saint-Germain-en-Laye at the age of 77.{{sfn|Tassinari|2013|p=35}} Pierre-Amédée Dupaty, the medal engraver and sculptor, was one of his pupils.{{sfn|Schwartz|Steiner|Sénéchal|2005|p=330}} Nicolas-Pierre Tiolier, who became the official engraver of coins, was another pupil.{{sfn|Webb|1907|p=259}}
==Work== thumb|Victory to the Arts. Fourth year of Bonaparte's consulate Jeuffroy made masterpieces in his genre, particularly the heads of women.{{sfn|Hossard|Delmas|2013}} His portrait subjects include the King of Poland, Prince Lubomirski and Julie Clary, Queen Consort of Naples.{{sfn|Dussieux|1850|pp=390–391}}
===Gemstone engravings=== {{colbegin}} * Head of Jupiter *Louis XVI *Marie Antoinette *Military piety *Love floating on his quiver *Head of Regulus. *Angel worshiping *Medusa *The genius of Bacchus *Victor drinking from a cup *Bacchante {{colend}}
===Medals=== {{colbegin}} *The Dauphin *Fourcroy *Madame d'Epremesnil *Mirabeau *Dancarville *Mme. Regnault de Saint-Jean d'Angely *Mme. Cosway * The conquest of Hanover *Peace of Amiens *Coronation of Napoleon *Bonaparte armed. *Capitulation of Spandau and Magdeburg. *Death of Louis XVII. *Accession of Louis XVIII, March 20. *Petrarch. *Heads of the three consuls. *Venus de Medici. *The Temple prison. *Medal of the Legislature. *Seal of the Legion of Honor. {{colend}}
==References== {{reflist |colwidth=30em}} {{commons category|Romain Vincent Jeuffroy}}
==Sources== {{refbegin}} *{{cite book|last=Bourhis|first=Katell Le|title=The Age of Napoleon: Costume from Revolution to Empire, 1789–1815 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fRIO-Bz4BaIC&pg=PA129|access-date=2014-08-20 |date=1989-01-01|publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art|isbn=978-0-87099-571-2}} *{{cite book|last=Dussieux|first=L.|title=Les Artistes français à l'étranger|location=Paris |publisher=Gide et J. Baudry|year=1850}} *{{cite book|last=Hennin|first=Michel|title=Histoire numismatique de la Revolution française: ou description raisonnée des médailles, monnaies, et autres monumens numismatiques relatifs aux affaires de la France, depuis l'ouverture des états-généraux jusqu'a l'établissement du gouvernement consulaire |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GXJOAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA647|access-date=2014-08-20 |year=1826|publisher=Merlin}} *{{cite book|last=Hernon|first=Ian|title=Fortress Britain: All the Invasions and Incursions Since 1066 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gzM9AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT359|access-date=2014-08-20 |date=2013-08-01|publisher=History Press Limited|isbn=978-0-7524-9717-4}} *{{cite web|url=http://cths.fr/an/prosopo.php?id=118343|date=2013-12-30 |last1=Hossard|first1=Nicolas|last2=Delmas|first2=Bruno|title=JEUFFROY Romain, Vincent |publisher=Le comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques|access-date=2014-08-20}} *{{cite book|last=Pradier|first=James|title=Correspondance |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VN1Z8fQdUpkC&pg=PA5|access-date=2014-08-20 |year=1984|publisher=Librairie Droz|isbn=978-2-600-03603-0}} *{{cite book|last1=Schwartz|first1=Emmanuel|last2=Steiner|first2=George|last3=Sénéchal|first3=Philippe |title=The Legacy of Homer: Four Centuries of Art from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux-Arts, Paris |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K7XMymPdFEUC&pg=PA330|access-date=2014-08-20 |year=2005|publisher=Dahesh Museum of Art|isbn=978-0-300-10918-4}} *{{cite book|url=https://www.academia.edu/4720841 |last=Tassinari|first=Gabriella |chapter=Jeoffroy, Romain Vincent |publisher=De Gruyter|title=Allgemeines Künstler Lexikon|year=2013|volume=78|location=Berlin/Boston |access-date=2014-08-20}} *{{cite book|last=Webb|first=Percy|title=The Reign and Coinage of Carausius |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hvcTAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA259|access-date=2014-08-17 |year=1907|publisher=Рипол Классик|isbn=978-5-88181-419-9}} {{refend}}
==External links== * {{FrenchSculptureCensus}}
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