See also: Girardon

François Girardon born with Troyes on March 10th, 1628 and dead on September 1st, 1715 in Paris, is a French sculptor.

Biography

Wire of a founder, raises of the sculptor François Anguier, it became protected from the Chancelier Séguier which sent it to perfect its formation with Rome. Receipt academician in 1657, it was one of the principal collaborators of Brown the.

He works with this last and André Ours for the construction of the Château of Be worth-the-Viscount. Then it takes part in the decoration of the gallery of Apollon to the Louvre and carries out important works for the gardens of Versailles of which Apollon been useful by the nymphs , the statue of the winter , the low-relief the bath of the nymphs , the removal of Proserpine .

One owes him, in particular, the Tombeau of Richelieu , with the Sorbonne, and the equestrian Statue of Louis XIV set up on the place Louis-the-Large (today Place Vendôme) but destroyed during the French revolution and whose small-scale model is with the Musée of Louvre.

Works

• the Removal of Proserpine by Pluto (1699), group, marble, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
• the removal of Proserpine by Pluto (1680), group, marble, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon, thicket of the Colonnade
• Basin of Saturn or the Winter (1672-1677), group, gilded lead, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
• the Winter (1675-1686), statue, marble, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon, garden, circumference of the floor north, alley septentrional
• the Winter (about 1674), statuette, terra cotta, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
• With Thomas Regnaudin (1622-1706), Apollo been useful by the Nymphs (1666-1675), group, marble, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon, thicket of the Baths of Apollo
• With Nicolas Legendre (1619-1671), the Bath of the Nymphs , relief, bronzes, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon, garden
• the Victoire of France on Spain (1680-1682), group, stone, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon, crowning of the southern guérite of the grid of Honor
• central Vasque, gadroon basin, supported by a barrel carved of watery foliages and confined by four dolphins of the Bosquet of the Domes (1676), white marble, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
• Fontaine of the Pyramid (1668-1670), marble and lead, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
• Hercules (1679), statue, stone, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon, pediment of the clock of the marble court
• Two Loves fôlatrant on a small island strewn with shells , group, lead, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon, Large Trianon, the basins of the High Floor
• Portrait of Antoine Arnauld, theologist (1612-1694) , bust, marble, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
• Portrait of Marie-Therese de Habsbourg, infante of Spain, queen of France (1638-1683) , bust, bronzes, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
• With Bernin, equestrian Statue of Louis XIV transformed into Marcus Curtius (1671 - 1674), equestrian statue, marble, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
• MATER Dolorosa (1657), low-relief, marble, Paris, Museum of Louvre
• Louis XIV with horse (1692), group smaller than natural, bronzes, Paris, museum of Louvre
• Saint Jean-Baptiste , statuette, bronzes, Paris, museum of Louvre
• Portrait of Nicolas Boileau, known as Despréaux (1636 - 1711) , bust, marble, Paris, museum of Louvre
• Vase of the triumph of Amphitrite , vase, marble, Paris, museum of Louvre
• Vase of the triumph of Galatée , vase, marble, Paris, museum of Louvre
• Portrait of Pierre Mignard, first painter of the king (1612-1695) , bust, marble, Paris, church Saint-Roch

See too

• Venus of Arles, celebrates sculpture greco-Roman, improved by Girardon (for its placement in the Gallery of the ices in Versailles) and which is an good example of the restorations that one could at the time dare.
• Joseph Vivien (1657-1734), Portrait of François Girardon , drawing Pastel, Paris, museum of Louvre, department of graphic arts
• Jacques d' Agar (1640-1719), Portrait of François Girardon represented as a Vice-chancellor of the royal Academy of painting and sculpture, close to an ancient bust of its collections towards 1675 , oil on fabric, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon
• Gabriel Revel (1642-1712), Portrait of François Girardon represented as a Vice-chancellor of the royal Academy of painting and sculpture, pressed on a marble head of Jules César belonging to his collections , oil on fabric, Versailles, castles of Versailles and Trianon