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(4) Augustin-Alexandre Dumont
(b Paris, 4 Aug 1801; d Paris, 27–28 Jan 1884). Son of (3) Jacques-Edme Dumont. He entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1818, won the Prix de Rome for sculpture in 1823 and spent the next seven years in Italy, producing works such as the Infant Bacchus Nurtured by the Nymph Leucothea (1830; Semur-en-Auxois, Mus. Mun.). He returned to France shortly after the July Revolution of 1830; a succession of public commissions followed, including one for the statue of Nicolas Poussin for the Salle Ordinaire des Séances in the Palais de l’Institut de France, Paris (1835; in situ). The government of the Second Republic commissioned from him a statue of Maréchal Thomas Bugeaud de la Piconnerie (c. 1850; version, Versailles, Château). As well as the various large public sculptures of historical figures that he produced for provincial centres under the Second Empire, he executed a number of portrait sculptures, such as that of the naturalist Alexander von Humboldt (1871; Versailles, Château). Many of the public monuments that Dumont designed were destroyed under the Commune (1871); he was prevented by illness from producing any work after 1875.
Part of the Dumont family
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- Dumont, Augustin-Alexandre
- Coudray, Marie-Alexandre-Lucien
- Dumont
- pupils
- Aizelin, Eugène-Antoine
- Bonnassieux, Jean-Marie-Bienaimé
- Carriès, Jean(-Joseph-Marie)
- Deschamps, Léon (Julien)
- Eakins, Thomas (Cowperthwaite)
- Georgescu, Ion
- Injalbert, (Jean-)Antoine
- Moreau, Mathurin
- Perraud, Jean-Joseph
- Ponscarme, (François-Joseph-)Hubert
- Roty, (Louis-)Oscar
- Thomas, Gabriel-Jules
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