Etienne-Maurice Falconet

{"Id":149,"Name":"Etienne-Maurice Falconet","Biography":"\u003Cstrong\u003EFALCONET, ETIENNE MAURICE\u003C/strong\u003E (1716-1791), French sculptor, was born in Paris. His parents were poor, and he was at first apprenticed to a carpenter, but some of his clay-figures, with the making of which he occupied his leisure hours, attracted the notice of the sculptor Lemoine, who made him his pupil. He found time to study Greek and Latin, and also wrote several brochures on art. [...] One of his most successful statues was one of Milo of Crotona, which secured his admission to the membership of the Academy of Fine Arts in 1754. At the invitation of the empress Catherine he went in 1766 to St Petersburg, where he executed a colossal statue of Peter the Great in bronze. In 1788 he became director of the French Academy of Painting. Many of Falconet\u0027s works, being placed in churches, were destroyed at the time of the French Revolution. His \u003Cu\u003ENymphe descendant au ham\u003C/u\u003E is in the Louvre.\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003EAmong his writings are \u003Cu\u003EReflexions sur la sculpture\u003C/u\u003E (Paris, 1768), and \u003Cu\u003EObservations sur la statue de Marble\u003C/u\u003E (Paris, 1771). The whole were collected under the title of \u003Cu\u003EOEuvres littiraires\u003C/u\u003E (6 vols., Lausanne, 1781-1782).\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cbr\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u003Cu\u003ESource:\u003C/u\u003E\u003C/strong\u003E Entry on the artist in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http://87.1911encyclopedia.org/F/FA/FALCONET.htm\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003E1911 Edition Encyclopedia\u003C/a\u003E.\u003Cp\u003E","Awards":null,"HasAlbums":false,"HasPortraits":true,"HasRelationships":false,"HasArticles":false,"HasDepictedPlaces":false,"HasLetters":false,"HasLibraryItems":false,"HasProducts":false,"HasSignatures":false,"HasVideos":false,"HasMapLocations":true,"TotalArtworks":10}