Giovanni Dupré was an Italian sculptor, of distant French stock long settled in Tuscany, who developed a reputation second only to that of his contemporary Lorenzo Bartolini.
Portrait of Giovanni Dupré by Antonio Ciseri
Abel, by Giovanni Dupré; (Hermitage Museum)
Lorenzo Bartolini was an Italian sculptor who infused his neoclassicism with a strain of sentimental piety and naturalistic detail, while he drew inspiration from the sculpture of the Florentine Renai
Giovanni Dupré
…1882) was an Italian sculptor, of distant French stock long settled in Tuscany, who developed a reputation second only to that of his contemporary Lorenzo Bartolini. Born in Siena, Dupré began in his father's carving workshop and that of Paolo Sani, where he was occupied with producing fakes of Renaissance sculptures…
Portrait by Ingres (detail, 1805)
Monument to Elisa Bonaparte Baciocchi, Grand Duchess of Tuscany (the Magnanimity of Elisa)
Nymph and the Scorpion, Louvre Museum
Lying Venus, 1820–1830, Musée Fabre, Montpellier