Jean-Baptiste Stouf

Jean-Baptiste Stouf (1742, Paris – July 1, 1826, Charenton-le-Pont) was a French sculptor known especially for his commemorative portrait busts and expressive emotional content.

In 1786 the Comte d'Angiviller awarded him the commission for a Saint Vincent de Paul, to complete the series of statues of illustrious men at the Louvre Palace.

On 8 September 1810, he succeeded Jean-Guillaume Moitte as professor of sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

Stouf's Bust of Belisarius at the J. Paul Getty Museum shows the general of Justinian, blinded, as a beggar, in a manner that suggests a philosopher or saint.

The Detroit Museum of Art has a terracotta sketch for a Hercules Vanquishing Two Centaurs.

Abel dying , reception piece for the French Royal Academy, 1785, Louvre Museum
Bust of Belisarius , 1785–91, Marble, J. Paul Getty Villa