French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century (1900) (14784546813)

Identifier: frencharchitects00dilk (find matches)
Title: French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904
Subjects: Architects Sculpture, French Sculptors
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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-in-law,Honore Guibert—a scheme of great magnificence, which delightedthe public, then much out of humour with SoufHots failure in hissimilar task at Paris.9 The Opera house of Versailles is the finest 1 In this capacity he demanded the restitution of the marble statues with whichMarigny, during his administration, had decorated Menars. N. A., 1874, pp. 366,367. He was appointed in succession to Coustou in 1777. See P. V., 30 August,1777. 2 Salon, 1761. 3 Salon, 1765. * 1761, marble statuette of Peace; 1763, statuette of Painting; 1765, buste en marbre. 5 1761, a Fleuve of gigantic proportions in stone for Brunoy. See also dArg.Env. Paris, p. 356. e Four seated figures personifying: Talents militaires, Prudence, Lib6ralit6, etles Beaux Arts. In. gen. Mon. civ. Paris, t. i., p. 119. 7 Salons, 1771, 1773. 8 In. gen. Mon. rel. Prov., t. i., p. 136; dArg. Env. Paris, p. 145; Salons,1761, 1765. 0 Comptes des Batiments, 1770; M6m., Bachaumont, 24 Jan., 1764, 26 Jan.,and 26 Feb., 1770. 126
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Apollo. By Augustin Pajou.(Opera, Versailles.) example of sculptural decoration furnished by the end of the cen- Thetury, as the gallery of the Banque de France is the most typical PuP»!s ofillustration of the beginning. One portion of this decoration— Baptistethe admirable reliefs of the twelve months with the signs of the Lemoyne:Zodiac, by which the lower tier of boxes round the pit are panelled— jacquesreminds us that to Pajou fell the task of supplying the three figures Caffierineeded to complete Goujons fountain when it was transferred, in ^nd1789, from its original position to the centre of the Place du pajou.Marche des Innocents.1 If he were unable to endow the threenymphs which he added to the monument with the naif freshnessof the earlier work, Pajou, at least, succeeded in reaching some-thing of that exquisite discretion in the treatment of relief bywhich the elder sculptors work was always distinguished ; for thestudies into which he had been drawn by his decorations