Lucas de Montigny

Jean-Robert-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny (9 December 1747 – 29 January 1810) was a French sculptor. His son Jean-Marie-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny was a politician.

Life After training in his initial birthplace of Rouen, he entered the école des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1774. He actively supported the French Revolution, sculpting busts of Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mirabeau and Jean-Barthélémy Le Couteulx de Canteleu. In 1809 he married the daughter of the sculpture dealer Roland. He died in Paris.

Works Louvre Préville the actor as Figaro, bust Saint-Huberty as Dido, statuette Mirabeau, bust

Other Voltaire standing and reading, statuette, Institut et musée Voltaire in Geneva, acquired in 1957 by the Pictet family and donated to the city of Geneva Jean-Jacques Rousseau, collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels