Jean-Baptiste Stouf

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Jean-Baptiste Stouf (Paris 1742–Charenton-le-Pont 1826), a pupil of Guillaume II Coustou, son of the great French baroque sculptor Guillaume Coustou, was a French sculptor known especially for his commemorative portrait busts and expressive emotional content. His Bust of Belisarius at the J. Paul Getty Museum shows the general of Justinian, blinded, as a beggar, in a manner that suggests a philosopher or saint. His reception piece for the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture, 1785, the Death of Abel shows Cain's victim sprawled full-length (Louvre Museum). The Detroit Museum of Art has a terracotta sketch for a Hercules Vanquishing Two Centaurs.