Pierre Bontemps

{{short description|French sculptor}}

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Pierre Bontemps (c. 1505–1568) was a French sculptor known for his funeral monuments;{{Cite journal |last=Watson |first=Ruth |title=Heart-shaped worlds: Cordiform maps in the context of early modern Europe |url=https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/ielapa.428594049106713 |journal=The Globe |issue=80 |pages=1–12 }} he was, with Germain Pilon, one of the pre-eminent sculptors of the French Renaissance.

He executed most of the bas-reliefs on the tomb of King Francis I of France, representing the French victories at the battle of Marignano and the battle of Ceresole.{{Cite book |last1=Cohen |first1=Kathleen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s9FPVKYPirYC&dq=info:RrEUZC1i9owJ:scholar.google.com/&pg=PA48 |title=Metamorphosis of a Death Symbol: The Transi Tomb in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance |last2=Cohen |first2=Kathleen Rogers |date=1973-01-01 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-01844-0 |language=en}}

His also are the statues of the king, Queen Claude, the Dauphin, and Louis XII and Anne of Brittany on Louis' tomb in the Basilica of Saint-Denis. The figures from the tomb of Charles de Maigny (c. 1556) now reside in the Musée du Louvre.{{Citation |last=Bontemps |first=Pierre |title=Tombeau de Charles de Maigny ou de Maigné (+ Paris, 1556), capitaine des gardes de la porte du Roi à partir de 1540 |date=1557 |url=https://collections.louvre.fr/ark:/53355/cl010091938 |access-date=2024-09-19 |last2=France}}

In 1936, a sale of contents from the chateau of Monchy-Humières included a full-length marble tomb which had been used as a garden ornament. Originally thought to be of Louis, duc d'Humières (1628–1694), it was in fact Jean III d'Humières (died 1553), executed by Bontemps. This is also in the Louvre.{{cite web |last1=Penin |first1=Marie Christine |title=Humières, Louis de Crévant, Marquis, later duc |url=https://www.tombes-sepultures.com/crbst_2094.html |website=Tombes-sepultures |accessdate=28 January 2019}}