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(Jardin du Palais Saint-Pierre)

Les plus célèbres artistes lyonnais

The most famous artists of Lyon

Various sculptors
1883

Lyon / Les plus célèbres artistes lyonnais

Description

Ten bronze portrait medaillons in the faéades of the garden of the Palais Saint-Pierre.

Terreaux (North) side

Lyon - Les plus célèbres artistes lyonnais

a^ne berjon peintre
1754-1843

Antoine Berjon
(Lyon 1754 - Lyon 1843)
French painter and designer
(Wikipedia).

sculpted by Charles Textor

gvil covstov scvlp
1677-1746

Guillaume Coustou
(Lyon 1677 - Paris 1746)
French sculptor and academician
(Wikipedia).

Sculpted by Étienne Pagny
Lyon - Les plus célèbres artistes lyonnais

philibert de l'orme arch
1506-1577

Philibert de l'Orme, or Delorme
(Lyon c. 1514 - Paris 1570)
French architect and writer
(Wikipedia).

Sculpted by Étienne Pagny

jacqves stella pein.
1596-1647

Jacques Stella
(Lyon 1596 - Paris 1657)
French painter
(Wikipedia).

Sculpted by Étienne Pagny

Terreaux (North) side Herriot (East) side South side

Lyon - Les plus célèbres artistes lyonnais

gerard audran graveur
1640-1703

Gérard Audran
(Lyon 1640 - Paris 1703)
French engraver
(Wikipedia).

sculpted by Charles Textor

simon-maupin arch
1598-1668

Simon Maupin
Longeau, Somme, c. 1600 - Lyon 1668
French architect
(Wikipedia).

Sculpted by Piere Aubert
Lyon - Les plus célèbres artistes lyonnais

p^ierre i^mbert drevet graveur
1664-1739

Pierre Drevet
(Loire-sur-Rhône 1663 - Paris 1738
French engraver
(Wikipedia).

Sculpted by Jean-André Delorme

h^te flandrin peintre
1809 1864

Hippolyte Flandrin
(Lyon 1809 - Rome 1864)
French painter
(Wikipedia).

Sculpted by Joseph-Hugues Fabisch

South side Chevanard (West) side

Lyon - Les plus célèbres artistes lyonnais

ant coysevox scvl
1640 1720

Antoine Coysevox
Lyon 1640 - Paris 1720
French sculptor
(Wikipedia).

Sculpted by Joseph-Hugues Fabisch

s^imon saint jean peintre
1808-1860

Simon Saint-Jean
(Lyon 1808 - Écully, Lyon, 1860)
French painter
(Wikipedia).

Sculpted by Joseph-Hugues Fabisch
Lyon - Les plus célèbres artistes lyonnais

j^ean j^acques de boissieu peintre graveur
1736-1810

Jean-Jacques de Boissieu
(Lyon 1736 - Lyon 1810)
French draughtsman, etcher and engraver
(Wikipedia).

Sculpted by Jean-André Delorme

françois lemot sculp.
1771-1827

François-Frédéric Lemot
(Lyon 1771 - Paris 1827)
French sculptor
(Wikipedia).

Sculpted by Piere Aubert

Signature

Not photographed.

Jardin du Palais Saint-Pierre

The garden of the Palais Saint-Pierre is a municipal garden located within the the Museum of Fine Arts in Lyon. It is a rectangular garden delimited by the arcades of the old cloister of the Benedictine abbey. It is located right in the city center on the peninsula. Like the Museum, the garden is open every day, except Tuesdays and holidays.

In the garden a number of sculptures of the museum is placed:

Bronze sculptures

Démocrite méditant sur le siège de l'âme / Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul by Léon-Alexandre Delhomme
L'Ombre ou Adam / The Shade or Adam by Auguste Rodin
Le joueur de flûte / The Flute Player by Jean-André Delorme
Giotto enfant dessinant une tête de bélier / Giotto as a Child, Drawing a ram's head by Jean-François Legendre-Héral
Jeune athlète / Young athlete by Jean-Baptiste Larrivé
Carpeaux au travail / Carpeaux at work by Antoine Bourdelle
L'Âge d'airain / The Bronze Age or Adam by Auguste Rodin
Chactas sur la tombe d'Atala / Chactas Meditating on Atala's Tomb by Francisque Duret
Faune ivre / Drunken faun by Léon Cugnot

Marble sculptures

Castalie ou Source de la poésie / Castalia or The Source of Poetry by Eugène Guillaume
Agar et Ismaël / Hagar and Ishmael by François Sicard
Gilliatt et la pieuvre / Gilliatt and the Octopus by Émile Joseph Carlier

At the walls:

Copies des statues antiques / Castings from antique sculptures
Portraits des plus célèbres artistes lyonnais / Portraits of the most famous artists of Lyon
Moulages de la frise des Panathénées et de celle du monument des Néréides / Castings of the Panathenaic frieze and that of the Nereids monument [not photographed by us]

Sculptors

Pierre Aubert (Lyon 1853 - Lyon 1912), French sculptor (Wikipedia).
Jean-André Delorme (Sainte-Agathe-en-Donzy, Loire 1829 - id. 1905), French sculptor (Wikipedia).
Joseph-Hugues Fabisch (Aix-en-Provence 1812 - Lyon 1886), French sculptor (Wikipedia – Musée du Diocèse de Lyon).
Étienne Pagny (Lyon 1829 - Lyon 1898), French sculptor (Wikipedia).
Charles Textor (Lyon 1835 - Lyon 1905), French sculptor (Wikipedia).

Sources & Information

Wikipedia, Jardin du palais Saint-Pierre.
Daniel F. Valot, Jeux et Photos de Lyon, Palais Saint Pierre.

Locatie (N 45°46'1" - E 4°50'0") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frra119; Photograph: 12 August 2018
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