Robert Le Lorrain
Robert Le Lorrain (1666-1743) was a French baroque sculptor who was born in Paris. His was born into a family of bureaucrats associated Nicolas Fouquet, Louis XIV's Minister of Finance. Le Lorrain was a student of the French sculptor, painter, and architect, Pierre Paul Puget (1620-1694). At age eighteen, Le Lorrain entered François Girardon's studio, to instruct Girardon's children in drawing and to supervise Girardon's other pupils. Le Lorrain won the Prix de Rome in 1689 and was a member of Académie de peinture et de sculpture (Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris) from 1648 to 1793. His students included Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1704-1778) and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785). Robert Le Lorrain died in Paris in 1743.
The Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the Liechtenstein Museum (Vienna), the Louvre, and the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), and are among the public collections holding sculpture by Robert Le Lorrain.
References
- Beaulieu, Michèle, Robert Le Lorrain (1666-1743), Neuilly-sur-Seine, Arthena, 1982.