Joseph Chinard (1836-1932)
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Neoclassical sculptor Joseph Chinard was born in Lyon, France and received his first artistic training in Rome at a government operated school, and later in a workshop. He remained in Rome from 1784-1787, at the same time maintaining his social elite patrons and their commissions from Lyons.
For the rest of his life, he would live between France and Italy, and was constantly busy with work in both places. Chinard’s sculpture gained much notoriety from the Italian Church, as well as Napoleon’s family and was commissioned three times to create sculptures for them.
Chinard was fond of working in terra cotta to create his sculptures of French nobility, as seen here in “Portrait of a Bourgeois”.
The Roman influence is very obvious in works by Chinard, which is probably why his beautiful style was so highly sought after. Some of his works were also a nod to the new Republic formed in France and his support of it.
Today many of his works are housed in the Louvre and in private family collections in France and Italy alike. He was a highly sought after sculptor in his day and left a massive oeuvre behind him, which included busts, statuettes, medallions and full-sized statues.
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