Artist: Francois Girardon (1628 - 1715)
Nationality: French
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Media: Sculpture
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Biography:
Francois Girardon’s early training was supported by the chancellor of the Academie Royale who funded his education in Rome. He began working with Charles Le Brun and was given royal commissions including restoring antiques, decorating royal ships, and developing and sculptural plans. He became chancellor of the Academie Royale in 1695. Girardon was also an avid art collector, owning around eight hundred sculptures at the time of his death.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (40)
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Pierre Drevet, Francois Girardon, sculptor, 17th - 18th century
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Pierre-Gustave Girardon, Passage de Provence, 19th century
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Francois Bonvin, Francois Bonvin gravant a l"eau forte, 1861
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Francois-Guillaume Menageot - The Death of Leonardo da Vinci in the Arms of Francois I c. 1781 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art English
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Artist: attributed to François Lemoine and or possibly Jean-François de Troy Title: Cleopatra Date: 18th
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Jacques Louis David - Madame Francois Buron 1769 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Francois Bonvin, The etcher, 1861
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Francois de Poilly, , 17th century
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Francois Vivares, Landscape, 1743
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Francois Vivares, Landscape, 1741
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Francois de Poilly, Portrait of a man, 1657
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Jean-August-Dominique Ingres - Portrait of Pierre-Francois Bernier 1800 oil on paper mounted Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester French
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John Singer Sargent - Mme. Francois Buloz (Christine Blaze) 1879 oil on canvas Los Angeles County Museum of Art American
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Francois Vivares, Landscape, 18th century
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Eugene Delacroix - A Portrait of Dr. Francois-Marie Desmaisons c. 1832-33 oil on canvas The Detroit Institute of Art French
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Francois Bonvin, Boy with a bowl of soup, 1861
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Francois Bonvin, The Weaver, 19th century
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Francois Bonvin, Mangeur de soupe, 1861
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Francois Bonvin, Auguste Pequegnot, 1850
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Francois Bonvin, Rue Croulebarbe, 19th century
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Francois Bonvin, La Guitariste, 19th century
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Francois de Poilly, Portrait of a man, 17th century
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Francois Bonvin, La Tisserande, 19th century
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Francois de Poilly, Portrait of a clergyman, 1664
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Francois Georgin, Bataille de Wagram, circa 1835
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Francois Georgin, Bataille d"Austerlitz, circa 1835
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James Bretherton, Courier Francois (sic), 18th century
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Francois Georgin, Apotheose d"Napoleon, circa 1835
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Francois Vivares, Harbor Scene, 18th century
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Joannes Meyssens, Francois Snyders, 17th century
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Pieter de Jode II, Francois Wouters, 17th century
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Pierre-Jean David d'Angers - Francois-Pascal-Simon, Baron Gerard 1836-c. 1838 plaster National Gallery of Art French
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Charles-Francois Eustache, Landscape, 19th century
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Louis Cossin, Francois Chauveau, (after Le Febure), 1668
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Francois L"heureux, Untitled , 16th century
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Francois Vivares, Landscape after Gaspar Poussin, 1741
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Francois Vivares, Landscape after Gaspar Poussin, 1741
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Francois Vivares, Landscape after Gaspar Poussin, 1741
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Francois Vivares, Landscape after Gaspar Poussin, 1742
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Francois Vivares, Landscape after Gaspar Poussin, 1741

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