biographie de François Michel L. TONETTI-DOZZI (1863-1920)

Birth place: Paris, France

Death place: NYC

Addresses: NYC

Profession: Sculptor

Studied: …cole des Beaux-Arts, with Falguière; with Noel and MacMonnies, also in Paris.

Exhibited: Paris Salon, 1892 (prize); St. Louis Expo, 1904 (med); PAFA Ann., 1907, 1917; AIC, 1916.

Member: NSS; Arch. Lg., 1901.

Work: He sculpted the figure "L"Art" (now in the LOC) based on St. Gaudens"s sketches, but when it was exhibited at the Paris Salon, St. Gaudens claimed it entirely as his own, reneging on his promise to give Tonetti full credit; MusÈe Luxembourg, Paris; NY Custom House; NYPL; figure symbolizing the Battle of the Marne""

Comments: In Paris, he worked as MacMonnies"s studio assistant on the "Brooklyn Arch" and on the fountain for the 1893 Worlds Columbian Expo, Chicago.

Sources: WW19; Falk, Exh. Record Series; add'l info courtesy Adina Gordon