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Born January 4, 1784 • Dijon • France
Died November 3, 1855 (aged 71) • Paris • France
Awards And Honors Prix de Rome

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François Rude: Departure of the Volunteers of 1792 (La Marseillaise)
Young Neapolitan Fisherboy Playing with a Tortoise, marble sculpture by François Rude, 1831.
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“Monument of Lady Elizabeth Nightingale,” white and black marble sculpture by Louis-François Roubiliac, 1761; in the Chapel of St. Nicholas, Westminster Abbey, London
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Monument to the Dead, stone sculpture by Albert Bartholomé, 1895; in the Père-Lachaise Cemetery, Paris.
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Jean-Jacques Caffiéri
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Jean-Antoine Houdon: Diana
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François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
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Pierre-Jean David d’Angers
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Clodion: Cupid and Psyche
Clodion
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Psyche Abandoned, marble sculpture by Augustin Pajou, 1791.
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Edmé Bouchardon
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La Halle Tony Garnier
Tony Garnier
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Italian sculptor
Maya Lin
Maya Lin
American sculptor and architect
Algardi, Alessandro: Tomb of Pope Leo XI
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Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Diana of the Tower
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Whitney, Gertrude Vanderbilt
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Flaxman, John: The Fury of Athamas
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Daniel Chester French, c. 1915
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