About Edme Dumont
Lived 1720 – 1775 (aged 54–55). Edme Dumont was a French sculptor.
Edme Dumont (1720–1775) was a French sculptor.
Dumont was born into a family of sculptors: his father was François Dumont, his grandfather Pierre Dumont. He received his first lessons from his father, and was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1768, with his reception piece Milo of Croton. He married Marie Berthault and they had a son, the sculptor Jacques-Edme Dumont. On 10 November 1775 he died at his home at the Louvre Palace and was buried the next day in the Holy Innocents' Cemetery.
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French sculptor (1720–1775)
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Edme Dumont was born in 1720 in Paris.
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Edme Dumont died on 10 November 1775 in Paris.
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Edme Dumont was a sculptor.
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