Charles-François Lebœuf

[1] Born in Paris, he studied with Pierre Cartellier at the École des Beaux-Arts, winning the Grand Prix de Rome in Sculpture in 1817 with a gypsum figure of Agis, Dying by His Own Arms.

The prize included a period of study at the Villa Medici of the French Academy in Rome, where Nanteuil carved the marble statue Dying Eurydice (1822), which he exhibited in Paris in his highly successful debut at the Salon of 1824.

This work later inspired Auguste Clésinger's Woman Bitten by a Snake (1847, Musée d'Orsay).

Other commissioned works include a seated statue of Montesquieu (1840, Louis Philippe I's Museum of French History at the Palace of Versailles) and the bronze commemorative statue of General Desaix (1844, located at the Place de Jaude in Clermont-Ferrand).

[1] Nanteuil's most important ecclesiastical works are two pediment sculpture groups in stone, Hommage to the Virgin (1830, Church of Notre Dame de Lorette, Paris) and the Glorification of Saint Vincent de Paul (1846, Church of Saint-Vincent-de-Paul, Paris), which reveal the influence of Italian sculpture of the early Renaissance and of sculptures from Aegina and the Parthenon.