Jean-Marie Valentin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jean-Marie Valentin

French architect and sculptor

Date of Birth: 17-Oct-1823

Place of Birth: Bourg-des-Comptes, Brittany, France

Date of Death: 08-Aug-1896

Profession: architect, painter, sculptor

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Jean-Marie Valentin

  • Jean-Marie Valentin, was born at Bourg-des-Comptes in Ille-et-Vilaine on 17 October 1823 and died in Paris on 8 August 1896.
  • He was an architect and a sculptor specialising in religious furnishings such as pulpits, altars and statues.
  • His father Antoine Louis Valentin was a master carpenter working mostly in ebony.
  • He was born in 1784.
  • Jean-Marie first worked at his father's workshop. In 1842, he studied at the École Municipale de Dessin et Sculpture in Rennes (this became the École RĂ©gionale des Beaux-Arts in 1881).
  • He was taught sculpture by Jean-Baptiste BarrĂ©.
  • In 1845, he received a bursary from the city of Rennes and travelled to Paris where he worked at a studio together with a Rennes sculptor called François Lanno.
  • He then worked at the studio of François Rude.
  • In around 1850 he settled back in Rennes and started to specialise in church furnishings.
  • His works are numerous and can be seen throughout Ille-et-Vilaine. His first masterpiece was the pulpit erected in the Église Sainte-Croix Ă  Saint-Servan, a suburb of Saint-Malo).
  • This had been promoted and funded by Napoleon 111 during his visit to Brittany in 1858.
  • During this visit, the church's curate, Monsieur Huchet, had brought the church to the Emperor's attention, highlighting the fact that it lacked furnishings.
  • The Emperor was generous and the pulpit was the result.
  • Jean-Marie was assisted by his brother Antoine, as was often the case, and the pulpit was indeed signed "Valentin Frères, Architectes et sculpteurs".
  • Many years later Valentin completed the memorial to Huchet in the Saint-Malo cathedral. Perhaps his best-known work was on the Saint-Yves funeral monument in the cathedral at TrĂ©guier.
  • For this work he received a prize in 1888 from the "Salon des Artistes français" where it was shown before installation in the cathedral.

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