François Rude

François Rude ( born January 4, 1784 in Dijon, † November 3, 1855 in Paris) was a French sculptor.

Life

François Rude was initially blacksmith, was formed in 1807 at the École nationale supérieure des beaux -arts de Paris and Pierre Cartellier, was in Brussels from 1815 to 1827 employed with decorative work for royal palaces and then moved to Paris, where his artistic activity only took its rise. Two busts of the painter Jacques -Louis David, painter (1748-1825) and in each case a draft of a statue of Michel Ney (1769-1815) and a bust of Gaspard Monge (1746-1818) are some of his works.

Rude's wife was the painter Sophie Rude (born Frémiet; 1797-1867 ). Their cousin Emmanuel Frémiet was employed as an apprentice in the meantime at Rude. Similarly, the sculptor Paul Gayrard and Auguste Poitevin enjoyed a period of training in Rudes workshop.

Works

Rudes major works carried out in which the ancient tradition is already penetrated by the modern naturalism, are:

• Mercury, the wing shoe pinning (1827 )
• Neapolitan fisher boy (1831 )
• The Departure of the Volunteers (1792, relief on Arc de Triomphe in Paris, awarded by the passionate movement of groups)
• Louis XIII .. as a boy (1842 )
• Grave character of G. Cavaignacs (1847, in Montmartre, Paris),
• Christ on the Cross (1852, Louvre )
• Maid of Orleans (1852 )
• The Resurrection of Napoleon
• Monument of Michel Ney in Paris