Lot n° 340
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Alexandre-Charles-Claude Renaud, dit Renaud de Spoix (Spoix - Lot 340
Alexandre-Charles-Claude Renaud, dit Renaud de Spoix (Spoix 1756 - 1815 Pensing)
Portrait of a Consulat general officer,_x001e_1802-1803_x001e_
Terracotta_x001e_ 65 cm high_x001e_
Signed and dated on the left side of the pedestal: Renaud de Spoix fait / l'an onze
Our officer's bust is a superb example of the portrait art of this rare sculptor from Dijon, a pupil of Devosge and the first winner, in 1776, of the Grand Prix de Sculpture instituted by the States of Burgundy.x001e_
After a stay in Rome, in the company of Gagneraux, he was accepted as a member of the Florence Academy in 1784.
Marseille, where he was appointed professor at the Académie de Peinture et de
Sculpture in 1787. He played an active role in the city's artistic life until 1806, and claimed to have worked in "the principal towns of Languedoc and Provence".x001e_
A revolutionary and a member of the Jacobin Club, he showed great commitment in his actions and works: He was one of the fifty Marseillais who stormed the citadel of Notre-Dame de la Garde on the night of April 29 to 30, 1790, and delivered a series of projects extolling the Revolution._x001e_ He wrote in 1814 that "I'm a man of the people.
In 1814, he wrote that "Flanders possesses a large number of busts from [my] hands: finally, this city, his ancient homeland [Marseille], contains several on which connoisseurs have cast a few glances of complacency."
Our bust demonstrates his great skill as a portraitist, of which other examples can be seen at Versailles, with three busts delivered to the State for the Salon des Maréchaux at the Tuileries: General Bon (inv. MV529), General Colbert (inv. MV511), and Admiral de La Touche Tréville (inv.
MV651), all posthumous._x001e_
Documentary sources:
- "Notes sur Charles Renaud statuaire" in Bulletin des Arts, October 10, 1846, pp. 144-146_x001e_
- P.-L. Bouillon-Landais, "Marseille et le sculpteur bourguignon
Alexandre Renaud 1786-1806" in Réunion des sociétés des beauxarts des départements..., Paris, 1894, pp. 1492-1541.
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