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

Life

He was born in Paris to Jean-Baptiste-Maximilien Delafontaine and Marie-Louise de La Brière. He studied under Jacques-Louis David. He exhibited at the Paris Salons 1798 and 1799. According to the Salon catalogues, he lived at 123 rue Saint-Honoré, in the Hôtel d'Aligre. On 23 June 1800 he married Émilie-Claude Herbillon from the Pont-sur-Seine. He died in Paris.

Works

• The Skater (Bertrand Andrieu), 1798 (Hôtel de la Monnaie)
• Portrait of Xavier Bichat, 1799 (Musée national du Château de Versailles, )
• Portrait of Alexandre Lenoir, 19th century ()

• The Skater (Bertrand Andrieu), 1798 (Hôtel de la Monnaie)
• Portrait of Xavier Bichat, 1799 (Musée national du Château de Versailles)
• Portrait of Alexandre Lenoir, 19th century

• 1777 births
• 1860 deaths
• 18th-century French painters
• French male painters
• 19th-century French painters
• Pupils of Jacques-Louis David
• Painters from Paris
• 19th-century French sculptors
• French male sculptors
• 18th-century French male artists