Étienne Maurice Falconet
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Étienne Maurice Falconet was a French baroque, rococo and neoclassical sculptor, best-known for his equestrian statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman, in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire, and fo
Falconet by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, 1741
The Bronze Horseman, the most famous sculpture of Falconet, representing Czar Peter I of Russia
The Allegory of Sculpture, 1746; Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Pygmalion and Galatee, Hermitage Museum
Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne was a French sculptor of the 18th century who worked in both the rococo and neoclassical style. He made monumental statuary for the Gardens of Versailles but was best known for h
Étienne Maurice Falconet
…a marble-cutter, but some of his clay and wood figures, with the making of which he occupied his leisure hours, attracted the notice of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, who made him his pupil. One of his most successful early sculptures was of Milo of Croton, which secured his admission to the membership of the Académie…
Portrait by Jean Valade, Palace of Versailles (c. 1754)
The Comtesse de Feuquieres by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. Terracotta, circa 1738 CE. From Paris, France. The Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A plaster bust of his friend Noel-Nicolas Coypel, 1730 (Raclin Murphy Museum of Art)
Louis XV (1749), Palace of Versailles