Louis Dupaty
Louis-Marie-Charles-Henri Mercier Dupaty (29 September 1771, Bordeaux – 12 November 1825, Paris) was a French sculptor.
The eldest son of the magistrate Jean-Baptiste Mercier Dupaty and brother of the writer and académicien Emmanuel Mercier Dupaty, he was destined for the magistrature but preferred the arts. He studied in the atelier of François-Frédéric Lemot and obtained a Premier Grand Prix in sculpture, 1799, with his Pericles visiting Anaxagoras. On his return from the French Academy in Rome he was named to the Institut de France, in 1816, then appointed a professor at the École des Beaux-Arts.
Vénus genitrix (1810), Jardin des Plantes de Paris.
Philoctète blessé (1810), park at the Château de Compiègne.
Equestrian statue of Louis XIII of France, Place des Vosges
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