Robert Le Lorrain
Robert Le Lorrain (1666–1743) was a French
Disappointingly few works by this highly accomplished master have survived. His best-known work is the stone relief, The Horses of the Sun, over the stable doors at the Hôtel de Rohan, Paris; sculptures executed in 1718-21 for the Cardinal de Rohan at the Château de Saverne were lost in the fire in the château in 1779,[1] but sculptures for the palais Rohan, Strasbourg, survive. Though Le Lorrain's works for Marly have been dispersed or lost, as have church monuments in Paris and Orléans, sculpture in the chapel at Versailles survives.[2] The Courtauld Institute of Art (London), the Honolulu Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum (Los Angeles), the Liechtenstein Museum (Vienna), the Louvre, and the National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.), and are among the public collections holding sculpture by Robert Le Lorrain. He is known to have been a prolific draughtsman: no drawings securely attributed to him survive.
References
- Beaulieu, Michèle, Robert Le Lorrain (1666-1743), (Neuilly-sur-Seine: Arthena), 1982. The first monograph devoted to the sculptor.
- Souchal, François, French Sculptors of the 17th and 18th Centuries. The Reign of Louis XIV. (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 1981. Vol. II. G-L, s.v. "Robert Le Lorrain"
External links
- ArtCyclopedia
- Web Gallery of Art
- Robert Le Lorrain in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website