Robert Le Lorrain
Robert Le Lorrain (* 1666 in Paris ; † 1743 there) was a French sculptor of the Baroque . He came from a family of civil servants and was the son of Claude Le Lorrain, an employee of Nicolas Fouquet , the finance minister of Louis XIV . His best-known work is the stone relief The Sun Horses ("les chevaux du soleil"), which is located above the stable gates of the Hôtel de Rohan in Paris.
Robert Le Lorrain was initially a student of the sculptor, painter and architect Pierre Puget (1620–1694). At the age of 18 he joined François Girardon's workshop, where he also took on the task of teaching Girardon's children to paint and of supervising the other students.
In 1689 he won the Prix de Rome . On his return to Paris, he entered the Académie de Saint-Luc and in 1701 was accepted into the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture , of which he was rector in 1737. His students include Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1704–1778) and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785).
His clients came from the royal family and from the Rohan family . Few of his works have survived. In the fire of the Rohan Castle in Saverne in 1779, the sculptures that he had made between 1718 and 1721 for Armand I. Gaston Maximilien de Rohan-Soubise , the Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg, were lost. His work for Marly-le-Roi Castle, which was demolished in 1816 , has also been lost. However, there are still sculptures from the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg and from the chapel of Versailles Palace . Although he is also known as a prolific draftsman, there are no drawings that can be assigned to him beyond doubt. A catalog of existing works by Le Lorrain was published in 1982 by Michèle Beaulieu.
Among the museums exhibiting sculptures by Le Lorrain are the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, the Honolulu Academy of Arts , the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna, the Louvre in Paris and the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC
literature
- Michèle Beaulieu: Robert Le Lorrain (1666–1743) , (Neuilly-sur-Seine: Arthena), 1982. The first monograph on Le Lorrain.
- François Souchal: French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries. The Reign of Louis XIV. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1981. Vol. II. GL, sv "Robert Le Lorrain".
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Le Lorrain, Robert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French baroque sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1666 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1743 |
| Place of death | Paris |