Jean Baptiste Joseph De Bay père

Jan Baptist Jozef de Bay, known as Jozef de Bay and Jean Baptiste Joseph de Bay the Elder, signed as De Bay Père (Mechelen, 16 October 1779 – Paris, 1863) was a Flemish sculptor, museum conservator and art restorer. After training in Mechelen, Nantes and Paris, he spent most of his active career in France where he executed many portrait sculptures in a classicist style. He became conservator of the collection of antique sculptures of the Louvre.