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CupidMarble
Private collection
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Bathing GirlMarble
Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
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Biographical InformationFALCONET, ETIENNE MAURICE (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's works, being placed in churches, were destroyed at the time of the French Revolution. His Nymphe descendant au ham is in the Louvre.
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Milo of Crotonc.1740
Bronze
Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia
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Monument to Peter the Great1776 - 1777
Bronze
Private collection
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Louis XVPorcelain
Private collection
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Winter1763 - 1771
Marble
Hermitage, St Petersburg, Russia
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L'Amour MenaçantAlternative title: Seated Cupid.
1757
Marble
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Holland
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Milo of CrotoaMarble
Private collection
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