François RudeEditor: Paul Muljadi

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François Rude

François Rude: 1888 engraving

Jeanne d' Arc, by François Rude (1852). Louvremuseum

François Rude (4 January 1784 - 3 November 1855) was a Frenchsculptor. He was the stepfather of Paul Cabet, a sculptor.

Born in Dijon, he worked at his father's trade as a stovemaker tillthe age of sixteen, but received training in drawing from FrançoisDevosges,[1] where he learned that a strong, simple contour was aninvaluable ingredient in the plastic arts [2] In 1809 he went to Parisfrom the Dijon school of art, and became a pupil of PierreCartellier, obtaining the Grand Prix de Rome in 1812. After thesecond restoration of the Bourbons he retired to Brussels, where,probably owing to the intervention of the exiled Jacques-LouisDavid[3] he got some work under the architect Charles Vander

Straeten, who employed him to execute nine bas-reliefs in thepalace of Tervuren, now destroyed.

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Mercury fastening his sandals,Louvre

At Brussels Rude married the painter Sophie Fremiet, daughter of a Bonapartistcompatriot to whom he had many obligations, but gladly availed himself of anopportunity to return to Paris, where in 1827 a statue of the Virgin for St Gervaisand a Mercury fastening his Sandals (now in the Musée du Louvre) obtained muchattention.

His great success dates, however, from 1833, when he received the cross of theLegion of Honour for his statue of a Neapolitan Fisher Boy playing with a Tortoise(now in the Louvre), which also procured for him the important commission for allthe sculptural frieze ornament and one group on the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris. Thisgroup, Départ des volontaires de 1792 (Departure of the Volunteers of 1792), alsoknown as La Marseillaise, a work full of energy and fire, immortalizes the name ofRude.

Among other productions are Napoleon Awakening to Immortality (Musée d'Orsay,Paris), the statue of the mathematician Gaspard Monge (1848), Jeanne d'Arc, in thegardens of the Luxembourg (1852), a Calvary in bronze for the high altar of StVincent de Paul (1855), as well as Hebe and the Eagle of Jupiter (Musée des BeauxArts, Dijon), Love Triumphant and Christ on the Cross, all of which appeared at theParis Salon of 1857 after his death.

Bust of La Pérouse, 1828

An important pupil of Rude was Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, whosubsequently executed his own interpretation of a Neapolitan FisherBoy, a popular subject at the time).

The Musée Rude, Dijon, inaugurated in 1947, is devoted to plastercasts of his works that were acquired by the city of Dijon, between1887 and 1910; it is housed in the transept of the 11th-century churchof Saint-Etienne in rue Vaillant. [4]

Notes[1] Rude's portrait busts of Devosges are conserved in the Musée des Beaux Arts, Dijon.

( Illustration (http:/ / www. artandarchitecture. org. uk/ search/ results.html?_creators=ULAN18718& display=Rude,+ François)).

[2] L. de Fourcaud, François Rude, sculpteur: ses oeuvres et son temps 1904, pp100-12, noted in Sarah Symmons, "French Copies after Flaxman's Outlines" TheBurlington Magazine 115 No. 846 (September 1973), pp. 591-599) p. 595,

[3] L. de Fourcaud, François Rude, sculpteur: ses oeuvres et son temps 1904, pp100-12, noted in Symmons 1973:595, note 25.

[4] Musée Rude (http:/ / www. fra. webcity. fr/ expositions-arts_dijon/musee-rude_200011711/ Profil-Lieu)

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La Marseillaise by François Rude; Arc deTriomphe, Paris

References• This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public

domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). Encyclopædia Britannica(11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.

External links• Louvre Database (French language) - Works by Rude (and some

others) (http:/ / cartelfr. louvre. fr/ cartelfr/visite?srv=rs_display_res& critere=François+ Rude&operator=AND& photoOnly=true& nbToDisplay=20& langue=fr)

• More views of the Neapolitan Fisherboy (http:/ / www. bluffton.edu/ ~sullivanm/ louvre/ rude. html)

• Views of the Arc de Triomphe (http:/ / www. bluffton. edu/~sullivanm/ arctriomphe/ arc. html)

• Art on-line: François Rude (http:/ / www. artcyclopedia. com/ artists/ rude_francois. html)• French language site listing works by Rude, with access to large images (http:/ / www. insecula. com/ contact/

A000046. html) (it may be necessary to close an advertising banner to view this page)

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