Jean Baptiste Joseph Debay

Jan Baptist Jozef de Bay, known as Jozef de Bay and Jean Baptiste Joseph de Bay the Elder, signed as De Bay Père 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.