Louis-Léopold Chambard
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Louis-Léopold Chambard was a French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 sculptor from Jura. He won the Prix de Rome
Prix de Rome
The Prix de Rome was a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture, and architecture. It was created, initially for painters and sculptors, in 1663 in France during the reign of Louis XIV. It was an annual bursary for promising artists having proved their talents by...

 in 1837. One of his sculptures is in the city hall of Saint-Amour
Saint-Amour, Jura
Saint-Amour is a town and commune in the Jura department in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France.-Demographics:As of the census of 1999, the population was .The estimation for 2004 was .-References:*...

.

Main works

  • Modestie, 1861, east facade of the Cour Carrée in the Palais du Louvre
    Palais du Louvre
    The Louvre Palace , on the Right Bank of the Seine in Paris, is a former royal palace situated between the Tuileries Gardens and the church of Saint-Germain l'Auxerrois...

    , Paris
  • Le Bûcheron, bronze with brown and golden brown patina
  • Bust of Jean-Jacques de Cambacérès
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