You are here: Art > Biography > French

Life of F�LIX LECOMTE


 Advertisements

 
  French sculptor, pupil of Falconet and Louis Vass. He won the Premier Prix de sculpture in 1758 and entered the cole royale des lèves protgs. He went to Rome and stayed there between 1761 and 1768. Returning to Paris he was accepted (agr) at the Acadmie with his marble group Oedipus et Phorbas. He became member of the Acadmie in 1771.
  Flix Lecomte s effigy of Franois de Salignac de La Mothe-Fenelon holding a voluminous copy of his Telemaque was included in the very first group of four statues commissioned in 1776 by the comte d Angiviller for the groundbreaking historical series of the great men of France. It was exhibited at the Salon of 1777. He regularly exhibited at the Salon. In 1783 he presented the marble portrait of the Queen Marie-Antoinette, in 1789 the life-size statue of Charles Rollin.
  
 Advertisements
Astronomy and Geography
click to see full size image
See more details about "Astronomy and Geography"
Jean le Rond d'Alembert
click to see full size image
See more details about "Jean le Rond d'Alembert"
Marie Antoinette
click to see full size image
See more details about "Marie Antoinette"
Oedipus et Phorbas
click to see full size image
See more details about "Oedipus et Phorbas"
Charles Rollin
click to see full size image
See more details about "Charles Rollin"

Pages :  1 

 


If you want write a review , you have to be registered. Login or Sign up / register
 Advertisements

Also see ...

LEFEBVRE, Claude

LE LORRAIN, Robert

LEEMPUT, Remigius van

LISBOA, Antonio Francisco

LEONARDO da Vinci



        


 Translation  Spanish  German  French  Italian
 painter  pintor  maler  peintre  pittore
 painting  pintura  Anstrich  peinture  pittura
 paintings  pinturas  Anstriche  peintures  pitture
 biography  biograf�a  Biographie  biographie  biografia
 gallery  galer�a  Galerie  galerie  galleria