Statues - Hither & Thither

 

Description

1. Four allegorical figures on the pilasters.
   1. La Sculpture - Sculpture, unsigned
   2. L'Architecture - Architecture, signed: a. fabre
   3. La Gravure - Engraving, signed: A^dre Laporte
   4. La Peinture - Painting, signed: Laffont
   

2. Six busts flanking the windows of the ground floor.
   1. pierre puget - Pierre Puget (Marseille 1620 - Marseille 1694), French painter, sculptor, architect and engineer (Wikipedia).
   2. francois rude - François Rude (Dijon 1784 - Paris 1855), French sculptor (Wikipedia).
   3. philibert de l'orme - Philibert Delorme of De L'Orme (Lyon c. 1510 - Paris 1570), French architect (Wikipedia).
   4. pierre lescot - Pierre Lescot (Paris 1515 - Paris 1578), French architect (Wikipedia).
   5. nicolas poussin - Nicolas Poussin (Villers, commune des Andelys, 1594 - Rome 1665), French painter (Wikipedia).
   6. eustache le sueur - Eustache Lesueur or Le Sueur (Paris 1616 - Paris 1655), French painter (Wikipedia).
   

3. Six portrait medallions, flanking the windows of the first floor.
   1. b. palissy - Bernard Palissy (Saint-Avit near Lacapelle-Biron (Lot-et-Garonne) c. 1510 - Paris 1589 or 1590), French potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain (Wikipedia).
   2. bachelier - Jean-Jacques Bachelier (Paris 1724 - Paris 1805), French painter and director of the porcelain factory at Sèvres (Wikipedia).
   3. lepautre - Pierre Lepautre (Paris 1659 - Paris 1744), French sculptor (Wikipedia).
   4. berain - Jean Bérain père (Saint-Mihiel 1640 - Paris 1711), French painter and engraver (Wikipedia).
   5. j. goujon - Jean Goujon (Normandy c. 1510), French sculptor and architect (Wikipedia).
   6. houdon - Jean-Antoine Houdon (Versailles 1741 - Paris 1828), French sculptor (Wikipedia).
   

4. Furthermore there are eight groups of three names under the portrait medallions:
   1. coysevox / coustou / carreaux
   2. g. filon / bouchardon / pradier
   3. gabriel / louit / duc
   4. mansart / labrouste / duban
   5. gericault / delacroix / david
   6. lebrun / boucher / ingres
      and at the sides:
   7. limousin / boule / lenotre
   8. p. de montereau / r. de luzarches / viollet-le-duc

• 1/2 antiquite
• 3/4 moyen-age
• 5/6 renaissance

Annotation

Sculptor

• Unknown artist. Do you know who the sculptor is? please let us know.

Sources & Information

• Wikipedia, École supérieure des beaux-arts de Toulouse.

Tags

Locatie (N 43°36'1" - E 1°26'23") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

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