Pierre-Charles Simart
Pierre-Charles Simart was a French sculptor.
The son of a carpenter from Troyes in Champagne, Simart was the pupil of Antoine Desbœuf, Charles Dupaty, Jean-Pierre Cortot and James Pradier. In 1833, he won the first Prix de Rome for sculpture with a relief Le Vieillard et les enfants.
He was an elected member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1852.Main works
- La Poésie épique, statue, marble, Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg
- La Philosophie, statue, marble, Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg
- pediment of the Pavillon de l’Horloge, Louvre, Paris, with fellow sculptor Antoine-Louis Barye for architect Félix Duban, 1857
- Napoleon in coronation robes, L'Hôtel national des Invalides, Paris
- a chryselephantine recreation of the Athena Parthenos originally by classical sculptor Phidias, for patron Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes
- four Hellenic friezes and ten reliefs at the Château de Dampierre, for architect Félix Duban, 1841–1843
