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- Originally in the church of Saint-André-des-Arts, Paris, it was dismantled during the Revolution and is now, in a reduced and modified state, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the fields of funerary art Girardon's most famous work is the tomb of Cardinal Richelieu in the chapel of the Sorbonne, Paris.
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In the monument to Richelieu in the church of the Sorbonne (1675-94) he provides the classical type for the free-standing altar-tomb. Like all Girardon's works, it was carefully designed to suit its position, which was originally the middle of the choir on the main axis of the church.
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Engaged by Fouquet at Vaux-le-Vicomte alongside Le Brun, Le Vau and Le Nôtre, Girardon was later employed by Louis XIV at Versailles. Along with Coysevox, he was one of the greatest sculptors at Versailles, both in quantity and quality, and created some of the most beautiful groups in French sculpture in the 17th century.
His Tomb of Richelieu (church of the Sorbonne) was saved from destruction by Alexandre Lenoir, who received a bayonet thrust in protecting the head of the cardinal from mutilation.
Title: Louis of France, The Grand Dauphin (1661–1711) Artist: François Girardon (French, Troyes 1628–1715 Paris) Date: late 17th century. Culture: French, Paris. Medium: Bronze, on marble base.
Alexandre Maral’s François Girardon (1628-1715): le Sculpteur de Louis XIV, the first major monograph on the artist since 1928, aims to halt the hare set running by Caylus which, to some extent,...
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François Girardon (born March 10, 1628, Troyes, France—died Sept. 1, 1715, Paris) was the most representative sculptor employed on the great sculptural project of decorating Versailles during the period of Louis XIV.
Girardon’s grandest projects include the marble group Apollo and the Nymphs in the Grotto of Thetis at Versailles (1666), the marble tomb of Cardinal Richelieu in the chapel of the Sorbonne in Paris (1675–77, toward the end of his work on the tomb of the Princesse de Conti), the mostly destroyed bronze equestrian
