Philippe Magnier

Philippe Magnier was a French sculptor (1647–1715) in the service of the Sun King's court painter Charles Le Brun.

Life edit

He was born in Paris to Laurent Magnier. He worked for Le Brun at a time when many works of art were required for the new, enormous Versailles castle complex. He died in Paris.^[1]

Philippe Magnier, Lutteurs, The Louvre, 1684-88

Works edit

Les Lutteurs ('the Wrestlers'), a 1684–1685 copy of the classical Uffizi wrestlers, made for Versailles park (now in the Louvre museum)
L'Aurore 'Dawn' (Louvre)
Saint Jude (Louvre)
Nymphe (park of Versailles castle)
L'aurore (park of Versailles)
Le Printemps 'Spring' (park of Versailles)
Ulysse 'Ulysses' (park of Versailles)

References edit

^ Martha Mel Stumberg Edmunds (2002). Piety and Politics: Imaging Divine Kingship in Louis XIV's Chapel at Versailles. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 0-87413-693-8.

External links edit

Philippe Magnier in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website

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[1] Martha Mel Stumberg Edmunds (2002). Piety and Politics: Imaging Divine Kingship in Louis XIV's Chapel at Versailles. University of Delaware Press. ISBN 0-87413-693-8.

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