Charles-Louis Corbet

Charles-Louis Corbet (January 1758 - 10 December 1808) was a French sculptor. He is known for a bust that he made of Napoleon and a statue of a French Dragoon on the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel.

Early years

Charles Louis Corbet was born in 1758 in Douai, and baptized in the parish of Saint-Pierre on 27 January 1758. His mother was not married. He studied in Douai, than in Paris in the studio of the sculptor Pierre-François Berruer. He won a medal from the Académie Royal. In 1780, when he was twenty-two, he had moved to Lille, where he was accepted by the Academy on the presentation of one of his modeled works. He was definitely named an Academician after he completed the Mort de Méléagre. Between 1782 and 1790 he made many bas-relief portraits and busts, often in terracotta. In 1790 he made a terracotta bust of Louis XVI.

French Revolution

Corbet was an enthusiastic supporter of the French Revolution, which began in 1789. Corbet was made librarian of the École Centrale in October 1793, and held this position for at least five years. He was commissioned to create a statue representing Liberty, and completed a plaster model in September 1794. He asked for three years to complete a marble statue. This work was never started. In the year IV he was sent on a mission to Belgium by the representative Briet, for a purpose that is not known. There are few records of works of art created by Corbet in the period from 1793 to 1799.

Corbet

Coordinates: 54°12′N 6°07′W / 54.20°N 6.12°W / 54.20; -6.12

Corbet (from Irish: An Carbad, meaning "the jaw/boulder") is a small village and townland (of 618 acres) in County Down, Northern Ireland, 5km east of Banbridge. It is situated in the civil parish of Magherally and the historic barony of Iveagh Lower, Lower Half. It lies within the Banbridge District. It had a population of 107 people (39 households) in the 2011 Census. (2001 Census: 95 people)

Places of interest

The Great Northern Railway

Corbet railway station was on the extensive Great Northern Railway (Ireland) system.

The station was opened on 1 March 1880.

The station closed on 2 May 1955. This action took place under the Ulster Transport Authority, cutting Newcastle, County Down from the rail network.

Corbet (surname)

Corbet is a surname, and may refer to

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