"Pierre Julien: Sculptor to Queen Marie-Antoinette" is a scholarly
study of the artist (1731-1804) who rose from humble beginnings,
the son of an illiterate carpenter, to become professor at the
Paris Academie and director of the sculptural decoration at
Marie-Antoinette's dairy at Rambouillet (1785-87), a surprise gift
from Louis XVI. A moderate during the Revolution, Julien became one
of the original members of the Institut National (1795). He
executed life-size marble statues, part of the Great Men series,
small works in terra cotta, and mythological figures such as
Ganymede, Narcissus, and Cupid. His masterpieces are Amalthea, or
Girl with Goat, the centerpiece at Rambouillet, and two statues in
the Louvre: the Dying Gladiator, his reception-piece to the
Academie, and Jean de La Fontaine, a statue of the author of
Fables.
The first major study of Pierre Julien in a hundred years,
"Pierre Julien: Sculptor to Queen Marie-Antoinette" celebrates the
200th anniversary of the sculptor's death and coincides with the
exhibition in Le Puy, France (Spring 2004). This volume is
indispensable to art historians and anyone interested in the
colorful period in French history between the age of Louis XV and
the rise of Napoleon.
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