Robert Le Lorrain

Robert Le Lorrain (* 1666 in Paris, † 1743 there ), was a French sculptor of the Baroque. He came from a family of civil servants and was the son of Claude Le Lorrain, a collaborator of Nicolas Fouquet, the finance minister of Louis XIV His most famous work, the stone relief of The Sun Horses ( " les chevaux du soleil "), which over the stall doors of the Hôtel de Rohan is in Paris.

Robert Le Lorrain was a pupil of the sculptor, painter and architect Pierre Puget ( 1620-1694 ). At the age of 18, he then joined François Girardon workshop where he also took over the task of instructing Girardon children in painting and supervise the rest of the students.

In 1689 he won the Prix de Rome. After his return to Paris, he entered the Académie de Saint -Luc and was admitted in 1701 to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, whose rector he was in 1737. His students include Jean -Baptiste Lemoyne (1704-1778) and Jean -Baptiste Pigalle ( 1714-1785 ).

His clients came from the royal family and of the house of Rohan. Few of his works have been preserved. In the fire of the Rohan Palace in Saverne 1779 the sculptures were lost, he'd 1718-1721, customized for Armand Gaston Maximilien de Rohan I. - Soubise, the Prince-Bishop of Strasbourg. His work for the 1816 demolished castle Marly- le- Roi are gone missing. Yet available, however, are sculptures from the Palais Rohan in Strasbourg, from the chapel of the Palace of Versailles. Although he is also known as a productive technical draftsman, there are no drawings that can be assigned to it without any doubt. A catalog of existing works Le Lorrain was published in 1982 by Michèle Beaulieu.

Among the museums showcase the sculptures of Le Lorrain, the Honolulu Academy of Arts, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Liechtenstein Museum in Vienna, the Louvre in Paris and the National are the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, Gallery of Art in Washington DC