Antoine-Denis CHAUDET

Antoine Denis Chaudet was born on March 3, 1763 in Paris and died in the same city on April 18, 1810 is a French neoclassical sculptor and painter.

A pupil of Jean-Baptiste Stouf and Étienne Gois father, Antoine-Denis Chaudet won in 1784 a first prize in Rome of sculpture on the subject of Joseph sold by his brothers, and left for the Academy of France in Rome. There will be four years. Upon his return in 1789 he was approved at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture. In 1805 he was appointed a member of the Institute. He was appointed professor at the École des beaux-arts de Paris on February 1, 1810, replacing Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée l'Aîné and was appointed successor François-Frédéric Lemot on September 8, 1810.

His statue of Napoleon I as an imperator erected in 1810 in Paris and running the column of the Grande Armée, Place Vendôme will be replaced in 1863 by a figure of Auguste Dumont.