Claude Ramey

Napoleon I in coronation robes (1813)

Claude Ramey (29 October 1754 – 4 June 1838) was a French sculptor.

Life

Ramey was born in Dijon and received his art training in the École de Dessin in that city under François Devosge. He then went to Paris and studied Sculpture with Étienne-Pierre-Adrien Gois. In 1782 he won the Prix de Rome and was subsequently a pensionnaire at the French Academy in Rome from 1782-1786.^[1]

Between 1806 and 1810 he was engaged on the bas reliefs on the Vendôme Column in Paris. In 1817, he was elected to the Academie des Beaux Arts; amongst his students was Jean-Pierre Cortot. In 1828 he produced a monumental statue of Cardinal Richelieu which was installed at Richelieu, Indre-et-Loire.^[2]

Ramey died in Paris in June 1838. He was the father of Étienne-Jules Ramey (1796–1852), also a sculptor.

Napoléon I in coronation robes (Musée du Louvre).
Napoleon I evokes Minerva, Mercury and the deities of Peace etc (1811, relief - Musée du Louvre).
Sappho (1801, marble statue - Musée du Louvre).
L'Entrevue de Tilsit (marble bas-relief, Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Paris.
Naiad (statue, Medici Fountain, Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris).
Eugène de Beauharnais, Viceroy of (1781-1824) (1810, marble statue, Palace of Versailles).
Cardinal Richelieu (1828, Marble statue at Place Aristide-Briand, Richelieu (Indre-et-Loire).

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