[Born in Paris. Died there, 1572.]
Many of his works were destroyed in the French Revolution, but the
Tribune of the “Salle des Cent Suisses,” in the Louvre, the “Diana of
Poictiers,” and the “Fountain of the Innocents,” in Paris, are left to
attest the artist’s superiority. At Malmaison, in France, is another
statue by him of Diana, remarkable for the beauty of the pose, the
suppleness of the limbs, and the extraordinary lightness of the drapery.
The two caryatides in the Renaissance Court are examples of his style.
Killed by a shot from an arquebuse during the massacre of Saint
Bartholomew, and whilst he was at work on the decoration of the Louvre.
[This is considered to be a bust of the time, and perhaps by his own
hand.]