Jean-Jacques Castex

Jean -Jacques Castex ( born April 9, 1731 in Toulouse, Haute- Garonne, † 1822 in Paris) was a French sculptor.

Life

Castex in 1798 at the request of the Executive Board Member of the Commission des sciences et des arts. As such, he accompanied Napoleon Bonaparte on his Egyptian campaign.

Castex made ​​several trips through Egypt to investigate the ruins. To date, he is known for his wax model which he has made ​​of the Phenix de Denderah, a cycle of ancient Egyptian zodiacs. To the inscriptions at the Temple of Philae to Castex also made it deserves.

His sketches and photos that ensued were shown in 1819 on the occasion of the exhibition of the Salon de Paris with great success.

Despite these works, which were incorporated with in the Description de l' Égypte, Castex could hold neither artistic nor economically "in his Egyptian adventure " back in France on foot. He died in 1822 at the Hospital Hôtel- Dieu (Paris) in absolute poverty.