Petitot initially studied under Claude François Devosge at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon. In 1788 he won the first major sculpture prize founded by the States of Burgundy, which allowed him to tra
Portrait of Petitot by Pierre-Paul Prud'hon, believed to have been painted while both artists were on their Prix de Rome (between 1785 and 1788)
Funerary monuments of King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette (not their graves) by Petitot and Edme Gaulle, at the Basilica of Saint-Denis
Jean-Joseph Espercieux was a French sculptor.
Statue of Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully
Greek woman preparing to enter the bath