Michel Anguier

Michel Anguier , born with Have (Seine-Maritime) in 1612 and die in 1686, is a Sculpteur French.

He carved a Amphitrite for Versailles, the low-reliefs of the Porte Saint-Denis, with Paris, those of the gate of the Valley-of-Grace, as well as the Nativité which decorates the high altar with this monument.

He studied with his brother, François Anguier (1604-1669), which was also sculptor, but of less reputation, until their voyage to Rome. There remained ten years in Rome where he was the friend of Algarde, Poussin and Duquesnoy.

Returned in Paris in 1651, it works with his/her brother with the mausoleum of Henri, duke of Montmorency, with Moulins. It also carried out those of the Cardinal of Bérulle and Jacques-Auguste de Thou.

One also owes him a staue of Louis XIII which was molten bronzes some, the principal sculptures of the Église of the Valley-of-Grace for Anne of Austria. It also decorated the personal apartments with the latter to the Louvre where its Nativité is regarded as its masterpiece.

It also carried out sculptures for the furnace bridge of Saint-Denis-of-the-Châtre, of the Bas-reliefs for the Porte Saint-Denis, the monument with the Duchesse of Longueville, a marble crucifix for the high altar of the Sorbonne and the statues of Pluton, Cérès, Neptune and Amphitrite of the gardens of Versailles.

He was professor with the royal Académie of sculpture.

Michel Anguier and his brother François are known like the Anguier brothers.

External bonds

Michel Anguier in Artcyclopedia

Source

Antoine-Nicolas Dézallier d' Argenville, Shortened life of the most famous painters , Paris, Of Bore-hole the elder one, 1762

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