Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Francois Girardon




Francois Girardon (1628 -1715).


Francois Girardon
Jaques D'Agar

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François Girardon, 1701 (Joseph Vivien) (1657-1734) Musée du Louvre, Paris

Girardon by Vivien
Louvre Paris


Portrait of François Girardon, after Vivien; half-length directed to front, looking to left, with periwig, his left hand at breast; in oval with drape at right and bust of an elderly man at left.  1696? Etching and engraving

Francois Girardon
after
Joseph Vivien
Engraving 
Pierre Drevet
c.1696

British Museum.

It also depicts a drawing or engraving of the Equestrian statue of Louis XIV cast by Balthasar Keller in a single pour in 1692 and erected in the Place Louis le Grand (Place Vendome) in 1699 and destroyed during the French Revolution 1792.

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width 92 cms approx.




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Winter
Marble
Versailles.

Figure Of Winter by FRANCOIS GIRARDON

Terracotta of Winter
Girardon
Sotheby's Paris
18 March 2015.
Originally in the collection of the Duc de Grammont.

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NB. Above No 10 - Bust of Aristotle


NB No. 23. Bust of Demosthenes






































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