Sébastien Slodtz
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Sebastiaen Slodtz, in France called Sébastien Slodtz, was a Flemish sculptor and decorator who after training in his native Antwerp, moved to France where he became a court sculptor to the King. He wa
Hannibal counting the rings of the Roman knights killed at the Battle of Cannae, 1704 (Musée du Louvre)
Aristaeus fettering Proteus
Nicolas Coustou
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Nicolas Coustou was a French sculptor and academic.
Sébastien Slodtz
…Hannibal counting the rings of the Roman knights killed at the Battle of Cannae for the allée royale at Versailles. It was designed as a pendant for Nicolas Coustou's Julius Caesar. Girardon made a terracotta model on the basis of which Slodtz executed the larger work. He also made a statue of St Ambrose in the…
Portrait of Nicolas Coustou at work, by Jean Le Gros (1710)
La Seine at la Marne
Descent from the Cross
Charles Dupuis, Nicolas Coustou, 1730. Engraving. National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund, 1979.25.2