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(2) Edme Dumont
(b Paris, ?1719; d Paris, 10 Nov 1775). Son of (1) François Dumont. He was a pupil of Edme Bouchardon; in 1748 he won the Prix de Rome for sculpture (though he was never in Italy). In 1752, while still a student at the Ecole des Elèves Protégés, he was accepted (agréé) by the Académie Royale but was not received (reçu) as a full member until 16 years later, on presentation of a statuette of Milo of Croton (marble; Paris, Louvre), a weakly classicizing version of a theme popular with Baroque sculptors. Among other works, he executed allegorical pedimental sculptures (stone, 1756; in situ) for the Sèvres porcelain manufactory; he also made the sculpture pediment (stone, in situ) for the courtyard of the Hôtel des Monnaies in Paris.
Part of the Dumont family
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