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Petitot, Louis(-Messidor-Lebon)
(b Paris, 23 June 1794; d Paris, 1 June 1862). French sculptor. He was a pupil of his father, the sculptor Pierre Petitot (1760–1840), and of Pierre Cartellier, one of whose daughters he married. He won the Prix de Rome in 1814 with the statue the Mortally Wounded Achilles Attempting to Draw the Arrow from his Wound (untraced) and completed his studies at the Académie de France in Rome. After his return to France in 1819 he received numerous commissions for decorative sculpture for the Louvre, Paris, the château of Versailles and the Paris Bourse as well as for the city of Caen.
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