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Cast in Bronze: French Sculpture from Renaissance to Revolution

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Pierre I Biard (Paris, 1559–Paris, 1609)
Fame
Paris, commissioned in 1597
Paris, Musée du Louvre, LP 361
Germain Pilon (Paris, recorded from 1540–d. Paris, 1590)
Lamentation over the Dead Christ
Paris, ca. 1583
Paris, Musée du Louvre, LP 44
Martin Van Den Bogaert, called Desjardins (Breda, 1637–Paris, 1694)
The Submission of the Doge of Genoa
Paris, commissioned in 1685
Paris, Musée du Louvre, RF 1606
Jacques Sarazin (Noyon, 1592–Paris, 1660)
Louis XIV at the Age of Five
Paris, 1643
Paris, Musée du Louvre, RF 2508
Hubert Le Sueur (Recorded in Paris between 1659 and 1658)
Louis XIII on Horseback
Paris, ca. 1620
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, A.1-1994
Barthélemy Prieur (Berzieux, ca. 1536–Paris, 1611)
Funerary Geniuses From the Tomb of Christophe de Thou
Paris, 1583–85
Paris, Musée du Louvre, MR 1684 and MR 1685
François Lespingola (Joinville, 1644–Paris, 1705)
Hercules Delivering Prometheus
Probably Paris, ca. 1675–1700
Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Grünes Gewölbe GGIX.88
Louis Garnier (ca. 1638–Paris, 1728); Medallions by Simon Curé (ca. 1680–Paris, 1734); Later additions by Augustin Pajou (Paris, 1730–Paris, 1809)
The French Parnassus
Paris, 1718–1721; Pajou additions, 1762 and 1777
Versailles, Musée National de Versailles, MV 6023
François Girardon (Troyes, 1628–Paris, 1715); Probably cast by Jean Le Pileur (d. Paris, 1702); Pedestal by Pierre-Philippe Thomire (Paris, 1751–Paris, 1843)
Louis XIV on Horseback
Paris, 1696
London, The Royal Collection, 31359
François Dumont (Paris, 1688–Lille, 1726)
Prometheus
Paris, 1710
London, The Royal Collection, 72636
Jean-Antoine Houdon (Versailles, 1741–Paris, 1828)
Diana the Huntress
Paris, 1790
Paris, Musée du Louvre, CC 204




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