André-Jean Lebrun

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]

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

Citations

Sources

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