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Dubut, Charles-Claude
(b Paris, c. 1657–87; d Munich, bur 23 May 1742). French sculptor and stuccoist, active in Germany. After training in Paris he worked in Berlin and possibly also Dresden. In 1716 Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria, appointed him court sculptor, and he became a member of the French artists’ colony in Munich. In 1716–17 he worked at Schloss Nymphenburg; his stuccowork on the main façade has, however, been much altered by later renovation. He also made numerous stucco reliefs for the decoration of the interior. In 1719 Maximilian Emanuel had put in hand an extension of the Neues Schloss in Schleissheim: there Dubut’s work is most notably represented by the Viktoriensaal, one of the finest extant Baroque interiors (c. 1723), in which 12 herms of Hercules support the ceiling above the main cornice, with putti below. Dubut’s ornamental stuccowork on the corbels in the Hofkapelle (Maximilianskapelle) at Schleissheim is also noteworthy. In 1721 Dubut worked on the Badesaal, the great hall of the Badenburg in the park of Schloss Nymphenburg, where he made the consoles for the busts below the gallery.
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