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Jean Guillaume Moitte
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Name
Jean Moitte
Parents
Pierre-Etienne Moitte
Died
May 2, 1810, Paris, France
Jean-Guillaume Moitte (11 November 1746, Paris – 2 May 1810, Paris) was a French sculptor.
Moitte was the son of Pierre-Etienne Moitte. He became the sculptor of Pigalle then Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. He won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1768 with David carrying the head of Goliath in triumph. He then entered the École royale des élèves protégés before a stay at the Rome, though it was cut short due to illness.
He worked for the king's goldsmith Auguste and participated in decorative works for monuments in capital. He was commissioned to produce sculptures of generals who had died in battle such as one of Custine for the musée de Versailles, the tomb of Desaix at Grand Saint-Bernard or that of Leclerc at the Panthéon de Paris. He also designed and sculpted the pediment for the Panthéon during the French Revolution, with the theme of the Fatherland crowning the civil and heroic virtues Moitte and Philippe-Laurent Roland were the main sculptors for the exterior of the hôtel de Salm.
He was a member of the Institut de France, the Légion d'honneur and professor of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Minerva, statuette, terracotta, Paris, musée du Louvre
The Triumph of Voltaire (1778), drawing, Paris, musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques
Orpheus in the underworld, drawing, Paris, musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques
Orpheus and Eurydice, drawing, Paris, musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques
Thucydides, Herodotus, Egyptian divinity and an Inca (1806), stone reliefs, Paris, palais du Louvre, cour Carrée, attic of the west façade, to the right of the Pavillon de l’Horloge
Hôtel de Salm, Palais de la Légion d’honneur
Two Renommée, bas-reliefs, stone, main gate
Festival of the Pales, bas-relief, stone, at the base of the courtyard
Five bas-reliefs and six allegorical statues, stone, corps central quai Anatole-France
Ceres, Mars and Diana, terracotta studies for statues on the coupole
The Rhine and The Nile, deux bas-reliefs for the tomb du général Desaix dans l’hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernard ainsi que ses deux plâtres modèles, bas-reliefs, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon
Adam Philippe, comte de Custine, commander in chief (1742–1793) (Salon of 1810), larger-than-life-size marble statue, Versailles, châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, completed by Jean-Baptiste Stouf
