French sculptor
He was the most prominent bronzier, or producer of ornamental patinated and gilt-bronze objects and furniture mounts of the First French Empire. His fashionable neoclassical and Empire style furnishing bronzes established the highest standard in refined finish in the craft. He produced a set of gilt-bronze wall-lights for Marie-Antoinette's card-room, her Salon des Jeux at Compiègne. He received his first notable commission, casting and finishing the gilt-bronze handles modelled by Boizot for a pair of Sèvres porcelain vases, today divided between the Musée du Louvre and Palazzo Pitti. His most prestigious commission was the execution of the cradle for the King of Rome, which was designed by Pierre Paul Prud'hon; in a second cradle, Thomire alone was responsible. At the height of his business, he employed six or seven hundred workers. A great number of the bronzes by him in the Imperial residences had been commissioned. In a notable commission for Count Nicolay Demidoff in 1819, he produced finely-made figures of Fame with doubled trumpets to serve as handles for the massive malachite-veneered vase now at the Metropolitan Museum.
He was the most prominent bronzier, or producer of ornamental patinated and gilt-bronze objects and furniture mounts of the First French Empire. His fashionable neoclassical and Empire style furnishing bronzes established the highest standard in refined finish in the craft. He produced a set of gilt-bronze wall-lights for Marie-Antoinette's card-room, her Salon des Jeux at Compiègne. He received his first notable commission, casting and finishing the gilt-bronze handles modelled by Boizot for a pair of Sèvres porcelain vases, today divided between the Musée du Louvre and Palazzo Pitti. His most prestigious commission was the execution of the cradle for the King of Rome, which was designed by Pierre Paul Prud'hon; in a second cradle, Thomire alone was responsible. At the height of his business, he employed six or seven hundred workers. A great number of the bronzes by him in the Imperial residences had been commissioned. In a notable commission for Count Nicolay Demidoff in 1819, he produced finely-made figures of Fame with doubled trumpets to serve as handles for the massive malachite-veneered vase now at the Metropolitan Museum.
French sculptor
He was the most prominent bronzier, or producer of ornamental patinated and gilt-bronze objects and furniture mounts of the First French Empire. His fashionable neoclassical and Empire style furnishing bronzes established the highest standard in refined finish in the craft. He produced a set of gilt-bronze wall-lights for Marie-Antoinette's card-room, her Salon des Jeux at Compiègne. He received his first notable commission, casting and finishing the gilt-bronze handles modelled by Boizot for a pair of Sèvres porcelain vases, today divided between the Musée du Louvre and Palazzo Pitti. His most prestigious commission was the execution of the cradle for the King of Rome, which was designed by Pierre Paul Prud'hon; in a second cradle, Thomire alone was responsible. At the height of his business, he employed six or seven hundred workers. A great number of the bronzes by him in the Imperial residences had been commissioned. In a notable commission for Count Nicolay Demidoff in 1819, he produced finely-made figures of Fame with doubled trumpets to serve as handles for the massive malachite-veneered vase now at the Metropolitan Museum.
He was the most prominent bronzier, or producer of ornamental patinated and gilt-bronze objects and furniture mounts of the First French Empire. His fashionable neoclassical and Empire style furnishing bronzes established the highest standard in refined finish in the craft. He produced a set of gilt-bronze wall-lights for Marie-Antoinette's card-room, her Salon des Jeux at Compiègne. He received his first notable commission, casting and finishing the gilt-bronze handles modelled by Boizot for a pair of Sèvres porcelain vases, today divided between the Musée du Louvre and Palazzo Pitti. His most prestigious commission was the execution of the cradle for the King of Rome, which was designed by Pierre Paul Prud'hon; in a second cradle, Thomire alone was responsible. At the height of his business, he employed six or seven hundred workers. A great number of the bronzes by him in the Imperial residences had been commissioned. In a notable commission for Count Nicolay Demidoff in 1819, he produced finely-made figures of Fame with doubled trumpets to serve as handles for the massive malachite-veneered vase now at the Metropolitan Museum.
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