Jean-Robert-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny

Jean-Robert-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny (9 December 1747 – 29 January 1810) was a French sculptor. His son Jean-Marie-Nicolas Lucas de Montigny was a politician.

Life
After training in his initial birthplace of Rouen, he entered the école des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 1774. He actively supported the French Revolution, sculpting busts of Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Mirabeau and Jean-Barthélémy Le Couteulx de Canteleu. In 1809 he married the daughter of the sculpture dealer Roland. He died in Paris.

Louvre

 * Préville the actor as Figaro, bust
 * Saint-Huberty as Dido, statuette
 * Mirabeau, bust

Other

 * Voltaire standing and reading, statuette, Institut et musée Voltaire in Geneva, acquired in 1957 by the Pictet family and donated to the city of Geneva
 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau, collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels