Jean-Jacques Clérion
Jean-Jacques Clérion (16 April 1637 – 28 April 1714) was a French sculptor who worked mainly for King Louis XIV. Clérion was born in either Aix-en-Provence or Trets. For much of his career he worked on the Chateau de Versailles, including many of the famous garden sculptures, such as the "Apollo Fountain". His admission piece to the Académie française, a 1689 bas relief of Saint James the Less, may be seen in the Louvre.
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- Born
- 1637 · Aix-en-Provence.
- Died
- 1714 · Paris.
- Nationality
- France
- Occupation
- sculptor
- Movements
- Baroque
- Education
- Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture
- Languages
- French
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Jean-Jacques Clérion (16 April 1637 – 28 April 1714) was a French sculptor who worked mainly for King Louis XIV. Clérion was born in either Aix-en-Provence or Trets. For much of his career he worked on the Chateau de Versailles, including many of the famous garden sculptures, such as the "Apollo Fountain". His admission piece to the Académie française, a 1689 bas relief of Saint James the Less, may be seen in the Louvre.
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Born at Aix-en-Provence in 1637, died in Paris in 1714.
Jean-Jacques Clérion studied at Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. The recorded working language is French.
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Parc de Versailles, demi-lune du bassin du Char-d'Apollon. Junon diadémée, tenant son sceptre, Jean-Jacques Clérion, 1686-1687, h. 2.7 m, marbre. inv1850n°9153
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- 1.Base Joconde, M5037010412
- 2.Gil Blas / dir. A. Dumont, (Paris), Gugenheim, Eugène, 4 février 1912
- 3.Base Joconde, M5037000009
- 4.Dictionnaire critique de biographie et d'histoire : errata et supplément pour tous les dictionnaires historiques d'après des documents authentiques inédits par A. Jal, Plon (Paris), 1867
- 5.Manuel de numismatique française, Volume 3, Adrien Blanchet, Adolphe Edmond Dieudonné, Librairie A. Picard et fils, 1930
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