Julie Charpentier, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French sculptor and taxidermist
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Place of Birth: Paris, ĂŽle-de-France, France
About Julie Charpentier
- Julie Charpentier (1770–1843) was a French sculptor. Charpentier was born in Paris, the daughter of François-Philippe Charpentier, mécanicien du roi, and grew up in the Louvre in government-owned lodgings.
- From her father she learned drawing, also taking lessons from Augustin Pajou.
- She began exhibiting her work in 1787 and first showed at the Louvre Salon in 1793; she continued to send works to the Salon every year from 1798 until 1824, working in terra cotta, stone, and plaster.
- Many of her sculptures were produced to government commissions, including four of the 425 bas-reliefs on the column of the place VendĂ´me.
- In 1801 Charpentier offered her services as a taxidermist to the National Museum of Natural History, and for twenty-five years thereafter mounted a range of animals for the institution.
- In 1826 she was granted a salaried post, but this was not enough to keep her from penury, and she died in poverty in the Salpêtrière.
- Several sculptures by Charpentier are in the collection of the Château de Blois, including a possible self-portrait.
- A bust of a man is in the Musée Antoine Lécuyer in Saint-Quentin, while a bust of Clémence Isaure is in the musée des Augustins in Toulouse.
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