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FALCONET, TIENNE MAURICE (1716-1791)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 141 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: EUD-FAT
FALCONET, TIENNE 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. His artistic productions are characterized by the same defects as his writings, for though manifesting consider-able cleverness and some power of
imagination
 , they display in many cases a false and fantastic
taste
 , the result, most probably, of an excessive striving after originality. 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. AE 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 bain " is in the Louvre.
Among his writings are Reflexions sur la sculpture (Paris, 1768), and Observations sur la statue de Marc-Aurele (Paris, 1771). The whole were collected under the title of Euvres litteraires (6 vols., Lausanne, 17811782 ; 3 vols., Paris, 1787).


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