Jean-Robert-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny explained

Jean-Robert-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny (9 December 1747 – 29 January 1810) was a French sculptor.^[1] His son Jean-Marie-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny was a politician.

Life

After training in his initial birthplace of Rouen, he entered the école des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1774. He actively supported the French Revolution, sculpting busts of Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mirabeau and Jean-Barthélémy Le Couteulx de Canteleu. In 1809 he married the daughter of the sculpture dealer Roland. He died in Paris.^[2]

Works

Louvre

• Préville the actor as Figaro, bust
• Saint-Huberty as Dido, statuette
• Mirabeau, bust

Other

• Voltaire standing and reading, statuette, Institut et musée Voltaire in Geneva, acquired in 1957 by the Pictet family and donated to the city of Geneva^[3]
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau, collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels

Notes and References

1. Jean-Robert-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny on base Joconde
2. Relevé généalogique on Geneanet
3. Gazette des Délices, musée Voltaire