Jacques Prou
Illustration — Prou's Bust of Marie Casimire Sobieska (c. 1680), Wilanów Palace in Warsaw. Jacques Prou (1655–1706) was a French Academic Baroque sculptor, a product of the Academy system overseen by Charles Le Brun.
Also recorded as Jacques, the Younger Prou · Jacques Prou the Younger
Jacques Prou
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- Born
- 1655 · Paris.
- Died
- 1706 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- sculptor · artist
- Honours
- Prix de Rome for sculpture
- Languages
- French
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Illustration — Prou's Bust of Marie Casimire Sobieska (c. 1680), Wilanów Palace in Warsaw. Jacques Prou (1655–1706) was a French Academic Baroque sculptor, a product of the Academy system overseen by Charles Le Brun.
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Born at Paris in 1655, died in Paris in 1706.
The recorded working language is French. Work by Jacques Prou is recorded in the collections of Musée de l'Histoire de France. Distinctions recorded are Prix de Rome for sculpture.
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- 1.Guillet de Saint-Georges, Jacques Prou, dans Mémoires inédits sur la vie et les ouvrages des membres de l'Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, tome 2, , J.-B. Dumoulin, Paris, 1854 (lire en ligne)
- 2.Henri Herluison,Actes d'état-civil d'artistes français : peintres, graveurs, architectes, etc. : Extraits des registres de l'Hôtel-de-ville de Paris, détruits dans l'incendie du 24 mai 1871, , H. Herluison libraire-éditeur, Orléans, 1873 (lire en ligne)
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- Auguste Jal, Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire : errata et supplément pour tous les dictionnaires historiques d'après des documents authentiques inédits, , Henri Plon imprimeur-éditeur, Paris, 1867 (lire en ligne)
- Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française du règne de Louis XIV, , Paris, 1906.
- Jules Guiffrey, Comptes des bâtiments du Roi sous le règne de Louis XIV. Louvois et Colbert de Villacerf, 1688-1695, tome 3, , Imprimerie nationale, 1891 (lire en ligne)
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