Pierre-Charles Simart [SEP] place of birth
Pierre-Charles Simart
Pierre-Charles Simart (born in Troyes on 27 June 1806, died in Paris on 27 May 1857) was a French sculptor.
The son of a carpenter from Troyes in Champagne, Simart was the pupil of Antoine Desbœuf, Charles Dupaty, Jean-Pierre Cortot and James Pradier. In 1833, he won the first Prix de Rome for sculpture with a relief "Le Vieillard et les enfants".
He was an elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1852.
in 1850. From François Rude Luynes commissioned a sculpture of the king who had founded the fortunes of his family; the "Louis XIII as a Child" was cast in silver rather than bronze. For the "Penelope" of the sculptor Pierre-Jules Cavelier he paid more than the sculptor asked, and he commissioned Pierre-Charles Simart to recreate the "Athena" of Phidias, in ivory and gold, based on ancient descriptions: "it cost Luynes a hundred thousand francs to prove that Simart was not Phidias"