Pierre-Maximilien Delafontaine (1777, Paris - 1 December 1860, Paris) was a French painter. After a long illness he re-established himself as a bronze sculptor.

Life

The son of Jean-Baptiste-Maximilien Delafontaine and Marie-Louise de La Brière, he studied under David

Jacques-Louis David

Jacques-Louis David was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...

. He exhibited at the Paris Salon

Paris Salon

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s 1798 and 1799. According to the Salon catalogues, he lived at 123 rue Saint-Honoré

Rue Saint-Honoré

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, in the Hôtel d'Aligre. On 23 June 1800 he married Émilie-Claude Herbillon from the Pont-sur-Seine

Pont-sur-Seine

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Works

• Paris, Hôtel de la Monnaie, Portrait of the engraver Bertrand Andrieu.
• Paris, Musée du Louvre, Portrait of Alexandre Lenoir
  Alexandre Lenoir
  Marie Alexandre Lenoir was a French archaeologist. Self-taught and devoted to saving France's historic monuments, sculptures and tombs from the ravages of the French Revolution, notably those of Saint-Denis and Sainte-Geneviève.- Life :The ravages of the Revolution caused the birth of the Musée...
  
  , curator of the Musée des Monuments français (1761-1839), before the tomb of Francis I of France
  Francis I of France
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  at the museum http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=13&FP=7903562&E=22S39UWX2FS19&SID=22S39UWX2FS19&New=T&Pic=12&SubE=2C6NU0HVKKMM.
• Versailles, Musée national du château de Versailles et de Trianon, Portrait of Marie-François-Xavier Bichat, doctor and anatomist (1771-1802) near the antique bust of the chirurgien anatomiste De Sault http://www.photo.rmn.fr/cf/htm/CSearchZ.aspx?o=&Total=13&FP=7903562&E=22S39UWX2FS19&SID=22S39UWX2FS19&New=T&Pic=13&SubE=2C6NU0N02APG