Jean-Guillaume Moitte (11 November 1746, Paris – 2 May 1810, Paris) was a French sculptor.

Moitte was the son ofPierre-Etienne Moitte. He became the sculptor ofPigalle thenJean-Baptiste Lemoyne. He won thePrix de Rome for sculpture in 1768 withDavid carrying the head ofGoliath in triumph. He then entered theÉcole royale des élèves protégés before a stay at theRome, though it was cut short due to illness.

In the 1770s, Moitte drafted numerous designs for the royal goldsmiths of the king,Robert-Joseph Auguste and then his sonHenri Auguste, and participated in decorative works for monuments in the French capital.^[1][2] He was commissioned to produce sculptures of generals who had died in battle such as one ofCustine for the musée deVersailles, the tomb ofLouis Desaix atGrand Saint-Bernard or that ofLeclerc at thePanthéon de Paris. He also designed and sculpted the pediment for the Panthéon during theFrench Revolution, with the theme of the Fatherland crowning the civil and heroic virtues^[3] Moitte andPhilippe-Laurent Roland were the main sculptors for the exterior of thehôtel de Salm.

Moitte was a member of theInstitut de France, theLégion d'honneur and professor of theÉcole des Beaux-Arts de Paris.

• Law,Numa,Manco Cápac,Moses and a pharaoh[1], bas-reliefs, bronze, Paris,musée du Louvre
• Minerva, statuette, terracotta, Paris,musée du Louvre
• The Triumph ofVoltaire (1778), drawing, Paris,musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques
• Orpheus in the underworld, drawing, Paris,musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques
• Orpheus andEurydice, drawing, Paris,musée du Louvre, département des arts graphiques
• Thucydides,Herodotus,Egyptian divinity and anInca (1806), stone reliefs, Paris,palais du Louvre, cour Carrée,attic of the west façade, to the right of the Pavillon de l’Horloge

• TwoRenommée, bas-reliefs, stone, main gate
• Festival of thePales, bas-relief, stone, at the base of the courtyard
• Five bas-reliefs and six allegorical statues, stone, corps central quai Anatole-France
• Ceres,Mars andDiana, terracotta studies for statues on the coupole

• Rousseau observing childhood's first steps, group, terracotta (1790), Paris,musée Carnavalet
• Dansers, frieze of the attic of the barrière d’Enfer, stone, Paris,place Denfert-Rochereau
• Portrait ofLeonardo da Vinci, white marble bust,Fontainebleau,château
• TheRhine andTheNile, deux bas-reliefs for thetomb du généralDesaix dans l’hospice du Grand-Saint-Bernard ainsi que ses deux plâtres modèles, bas-reliefs,Versailles,châteaux de Versailles et deTrianon
• Adam Philippe,comte de Custine, commander in chief (1742–1793) (Salon of 1810), larger-than-life-size marble statue, Versailles,châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, completed byJean-Baptiste Stouf
• Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625–1712), terracotta equestrian statuette,Bayonne, muséeBonnat
• A sacrifice, drawing,Dijon,musée Magnin
• Departure (1798–1799), drawing,Vizille,Musée de la Révolution française
• Original bas-reliefs (destroyed) and two bronze lions (surviving),Column of the Grande Armée, Wimille
• Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi (1795),Mougins Museum of Classical Art

• Simone Hoog, (preface by Jean-Pierre Babelon, in collaboration with Roland Brossard),Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I- Le musée, Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1993.
• Pierre Kjellberg,Le Nouveau guide des statues de Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1988.
• Catalogue d’exposition,Skulptur aus dem Louvre. Sculptures françaises néo-classiques. 1760 - 1830, Paris, musée du Louvre, 23 mai - 3 septembre 1990.

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• Prix de Rome for sculpture
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