Artist: Etienne-maurice Falconet (1716 - 1791)
Nationality: French
Movement: Rococo
Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
Etienne-Maurice Falconet first studied sculpture under J.B Lemoyne. He then adopted a style that was purely Rococo. One of his famous works, The Bather, was typical of Falconet; erotic nudes were his preferred subjects. He was director of the Sevres factory from 1757 to 1766 and the business was also responsible for reproducing many of his sculptures in porcelain. Falconet moved to Russia in 1766 and was recommended to Catherine II by Diderot. He remained there for twelve years, completing his greatest sculpture under her patronage. It was an equestrian statue of Peter the Great, unveiled in St. Petersburg in 1782. Falconet, however, had returned to France in 1778. He had a stroke in 1783 that kept him from sculpting. He then began revising his writings that were previously published in 1781. His best-known writing is Reflexions sur la sculpture.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Etienne-Maurice Falconet - Venus of the Doves n.d. marble National Gallery of Art French
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Etienne Maurice Falconet - French Fidelity Crowning Love c. 1760 marble The Frick Collection French
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Etienne Aubry, Etienne Jeaurat, circa 1771
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General Étienne-Maurice Gérard (1774-1852), Marshal of France, 1816 Jacques-Louis David (French, 1748-1825)Oil on canvas; 77
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Maurice Denis, Tendresse, 1893
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Maurice Achener, Sion, 1914
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Maurice Achener, Fribourg, 1914
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, After the Review, 1895
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Maurice Denis, Les Pelerins d"Emmaus, 1895
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Maurice Delcourt, La Famille du raveur, 1898
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Maurice Sterne, Vera Segal, 1930
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Maurice Realier-Dumas, Corinne, 1897
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Maurice Dumont, Sappho, 19th century
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Maurice Dumont, Sappho, 19th century
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Maurice Denis, Maternite au cypres, 1898
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John Marin, Old Mill, St. Maurice, 1906
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, In the Park, 1893 - 1894
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, The Holiday, 1907 - 1909
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Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Promenade at Nantasket, 1902
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Maurice de Vlaminck, Harbor Town, 20th century
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Maurice de Vlaminck, Rue a Heronville, 19th - 20th century
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Maurice de Vlaminck, The Port of Martigues, circa 1914
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Maurice de Vlaminck, Head of a Woman, circa 1910
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Maurice Achener, Basilica Palladiana Vicenza, 1911
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Odilon Redon, Portrait of Maurice Denis, 1903
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Maurice Brianchon, Le Foyer De La Danse, 19th - 20th century
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Maurice R. Bebb, The Black Swans, 20th century
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Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Self-Portrait, circa 1760
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Maurice Sterne, Coney Island, 19th - 20th century
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Maurice de Vlaminck, Village Street, 19th - 20th century
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Maurice Brianchon, Beach Scene, 19th - 20th century
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Maurice Denis, M. Baron, 19th - 20th century
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Maurice Utrillo, Moulin de la Galette, 19th - 20th century
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Maurice Denis, D"apres une nature morte de Cezanne, 1914
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Maurice-Louis-Henri Neumont, Parisienne, circa 1890
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Francis Dodd, R.A., Maurice George Carr Glyn, 1917
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Maurice Raphael Drouart, La Negresse, 19th - 20th century
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Simon Charles Miger, Count Maurice de Bruhl, 1764
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Charles Maurice Detmold and Edward Julius, Peacocks, 1905
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LÈopold Flameng, Maurice (?) de Latour, 19th - 20th century

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (1)
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Haus der Kunst: The Contest Between Painting and Sculpture: From Duerer to Daumier
Painting and sculpture as subjects of themselves have appeared openly in the allegorical personifications of Pictura and Sculptura, but also in the mythological representations of Apelles and the Christian representations of St. Luke painting the ...

Further Artwork and Information:

Etienne-Maurice Falconet Online
WIEM: Falconet Étienne Maurice
Etienne-maurice Falconet (1891 - 1974) Biography, Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
FALCONET, Étienne-Maurice
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Étienne-Maurice Falconet -- Encyclopædia Britannica
Biography
Falconet, Étienne Maurice

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