Louis Lerambert

Louis Leramberg (* 1620 in Paris, † June 15, 1670 ) was a French sculptor.

Life

Louis Leramberg or Lerambert Louis was the son of Simon Leramberts and a student Simon Vouet. From an artistic family, he belonged in 1637, the year of his father, the Garde des Antiques et des Marbres du Roi au Louvre to. His great-grandfather was Louis I. Lerambert who decorated the Valois Chapel at the Abbey of Saint -Denis, his great-uncle was a famous artist Henri Lerambert and his father created stitches and grave times. Louis Leramberg itself was at court not only popular as a sculptor, but also because of its poetic and musical talents. He received numerous commissions, which included the design of sculptures, busts and tombs. Many of his works are not preserved. Around 1660 he created the stucco decorations of the chapel of the castle Chamarande (formerly Château de Bonne ) in Chamarande, Essonne, and the grave reliefs for Jean Courtin and his wife, who are in the Cathedral of Blois.

1663 or 1664 he became a member in 1665 and a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture. He belonged to the first generation of sculptors, which decorated Versailles. Have been preserved there for about two ridden by gods of love sphinxes, which he developed from a model of his teacher Jacques Sarrazin, as well as a group of three dancing children made ​​of bronze in the Allée d' eau. Many other of his works at Versailles were destroyed, such as various mythological creatures such as Faun and Nymph, dancing or playing an instrument held, from the time in 1664 /65. They are known from engravings by hand Thomassins Simon and Jean Le Pautres.

His work L' Amour tirant à l'arc was for the pond in the Parterre du Midi created at Versailles in 1667. In 1680 she disappeared from their site. Over 300 years later, it was rediscovered and purchased for the Museum of the Palace of Versailles in 2009. She since then has been the oldest statue in the existence of the Musée de l' Histoire de France represents the figure of seated love of God was restored by Emmanuel Plé. Plé took a year to release the statue of deposits and close bullet holes and wing, leg and head of the love of God to replace.

To Lerambergs students included Antoine Coyzevox.