Jean-Jacques Flatters, was a French neo-classical sculptor.
11 Facts About Jean-Jacques Flatters
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Jean-Jacques Flatters was the father of Lieutenant-colonel Paul Flatters, who led a tragic mission in the Sahara in 1881.
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Jean-Jacques Flatters came from Westphalia to Paris to study sculpture and painting.
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Jean-Jacques Flatters was a pupil of Jean-Antoine Houdon and Jacques-Louis David.
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Jean-Jacques Flatters served in the French army from February to July 1814 at the close of the First French Empire.
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Jean-Jacques Flatters received only three official commissions before 1830: a bust in 1819 and two more busts in 1829.
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Jean-Jacques Flatters described the many difficulties he had experienced in his career and appealed to the minister to give him justice.
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On 4 September 1831 Jean-Jacques Flatters was given compensation of 5,000 francs for loss of the commission.
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In 1830 Jean-Jacques Flatters married Emile-Dircee Lebon, daughter of the Napoleonic colonel Simon Lebon.
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Jean Jacques Jean-Jacques Flatters died on 19 August 1845 in Paris, aged 58.
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Jean-Jacques Flatters made many busts including the writers and artists Byron, Goethe, Gretry and Talma; the actresses Mlle George and Mlle Raucourt; the famous contemporaries Foy, Manuel, Laffitte and Louis XVIII of France ; the historical figures Robert of Burgundy, Turenne and Piero Strozzi, Marshal of France.