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Louis Desprez (1799–1870) was a French sculptor.
Born in Paris, he was a pupil of Francois Joseph Bosio. He went to Rome after winning the Prix de Rome for Sculpture in 1826. He was principally distinguished for his busts and portrait statues.
Jean-Antoine Houdon was a French neoclassical sculptor.
The Prix de Rome or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them to stay in Rome for three to five years at the expense of the state. The prize was extended to architecture in 1720, music in 1803 and engraving in 1804. The prestigious award was abolished in 1968 by André Malraux, then Minister of Culture, following the May 68 riots that called for cultural change.
The Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture was founded in 1648 in Paris, France. It was the premier art institution of France during the latter part of the Ancien Régime until it was abolished in 1793 during the French Revolution. It included most of the important painters and sculptors, maintained almost total control of teaching and exhibitions, and afforded its members preference in royal commissions.
François Rude was a French sculptor, best known for the Departure of the Volunteers, also known as La Marseillaise on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. (1835–36). His work often expressed patriotic themes, as well as the transition from neo-classicism to romanticism.
Jean-Sifrein Maury was a French cardinal, archbishop of Paris, and former bishop of Montefiascone.
Paul Dubois was a French sculptor and painter from Nogent-sur-Seine. His works were mainly sculptures and statues, and he was also a portrait painter.
Events from the year 1870 in art.
Desprez or des Prez is a surname, and may refer to:
Louis Jean Desprez was a French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life.
Guillaume Coustou the Younger was a French sculptor of the late French Baroque or Style Louis XIV, and early neo-classicism.
François-Frédéric Lemot was a French sculptor, working in the Neoclassical style.
Louis-Pierre Deseine (1749–1822) was a French sculptor, who was born and died in Paris. He is known above all for his portrait busts and imaginary portraits.
Charles Errard the Younger was a French painter, architect and engraver, co-founder and later director of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. In 1666 Louis XIV's minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert sent him to found the Académie de France à Rome, where he was director until 1684.
Émile Edmond Jean Peynot was a prominent French artist sculptor and medallist.
Guillaume Voiriot was a French portrait painter.
Auguste-Marie Taunay (1768–1824) was a French sculptor.
Louis-Félix Chabaud (1824-1902) was a French sculptor, engraver and medallist.
Alexandre Leblanc de Ferrière, died after 1845, was an 18th–19th-century French playwright, journalist, printer, publisher and writer.
Jean-Pierre Aurélien de Sèze was a French lawyer who represented Gironde in the National Assembly during the French Second Republic. As a young man he had an intense but platonic affair with the future novelist George Sand. Politically, he was conservative and a legitimist monarchist.
Julien Florian Félix Desprez, who used the name Florian Desprez (14 April 1807 – 21 January 1895) was a French prelate of the Catholic Church, who became a bishop in 1850, first in Réunion from 1850 to 1857 and then in Limoges until 1859. He spent 36 years of his ecclesiastical career as archbishop of Toulouse from 1859 to 1895. He was made a cardinal in 1879.
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