Étienne Maurice Falconet

1716

French sculptor (1716–1791)

Étienne Maurice Falconet was a French baroque, rococo and neoclassical sculptor, best-known for his equestrian statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman (1782), in St. Petersburg, Russia, and for the small statues he produced in series for the Royal Sévres Porcelain Manufactory.

Étienne Maurice Falconet

Works

L’Amour menaçant

The Punishment of Cupid

Venus of the Doves

Le Génie de la Sculpture

Female Bather

Figure Group: The Flute Lesson (one of a pair)

The music

Milon de Crotone, Falconet

Bather

Amour menaçant by Falconet

Amour menaçant by Falconet

Pygmalion and Galatea

Bronze Horseman

Jeune Fille assise