André-Jean Lebrun

French sculptor (1737–1811)

André-Jean Lebrun (1737–1811) was a French sculptor.

Life

André-Jean Lebrun, Kyrylo Rozumovskyi (1766), Moscow, Tretyakov Gallery.

Allegories of Justice and Peace (1771) in the Marble Room at the Royal Castle in Warsaw.

André-Jean Lebrun was born in Paris in 1737. He studied under Jean-Baptiste Pigalle.^[1]Lebrun won the Grand Prix of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1756.^[2]He tied with the sculptor Pierre-François Berruer (1733–1797), winning a scholarship to the Villa Medici in Rome.^[3]In Rome he made a number of statues for the church of San Carlo al Corso.^[1]These included a statue of Judith. He also carved a bust of Pope Clement XIII (1768).^[4]He became a member of the Académie de Saint-Luc and the Académie de Marseille.^[2]

Lebrun was invited to Poland on the recommendation of Madame Geoffrin.^[4]and was appointed chief sculptor to King Stanisław August Poniatowski.^[5]He also worked in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where he made a bust of the Empress Maria Feodorovna.^[4]In 1804, he became professor of sculpture at Vilnius University.^[4]

He died in Vilnius in 1811.^[1]

Works

The Louvre holds three drawings by Lebrun:^[2]

• Trois jeunes femmes drapées à l'antique, dansant devant un buste
• Composition allégorique avec Athéna
• Neptune tenant son trident, dans un médaillon orné

Sculpture includes:

• Statue of David, San Carlo al Corso, Rome
• Bust of Count Kirill Razumovsky (1766) Marble. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• Bust of Cardinal Giuseppe Maria Feroni (1767) Marble. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Bust of King Stanislas Auguste II Poniatowski (1784) New Hrodna Castle, Belarus

References

Citations

1. Lebrun, André-Jean, Treccani.
2. LEBRUN André Jean, Louvre.
3. Braquahaye 1876.
4. André-Jean Lebrun, Devoir-de-philosophie.
5. Brunaux 2014.

Sources

• Braquahaye, Charles (1876), Conjectures sur la destination des corniches à têtes feuillées du musée de Bordeaux, suivi d'une notice sur Pierre Berruer, sculpteur, et sur les statues du grand-théâtre de Bordeaux
• "André-Jean Lebrun". Devoir-de-philosophie.com (in French). Archived from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-02.
• Brunaux, Camille (2 May 2014). "André Jean Lebrun (1737–1811)". La Tribune de l'Art (in French). Retrieved 2014-07-02.
• "André-Jean Le Brun (1737-1811)" (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. 2016. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
• "LEBRUN André Jean" (in French). Louvre. Retrieved 2014-07-02.
• Lebrun, André-Jean (in Italian). Retrieved 2014-07-02. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)

External links

• André-Jean Lebrun in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website