- Also known as
- Etienne Maurice Falconet
- primary name: primary name: Falconet, Etienne Maurice
- Details
- individual; sculptor/medallist; French; Male
- Other dates
- -1791 (death)
- Biography
- Sculptor, and director of the modelling workshop at Sèvres from 1755 to 1766. The biscuit figures made during this period are incised with an F. Falconet was a pupil of J.B. Lemoyne. 1766-88 he worked in St Petersburg on a statue of Peter the Great for Empress Catherine. His many writings on art were published in 6 vols 1781-2.
- Bibliography
- Exh. cat. Sèvres 2001/2
Savill, Rosalind. The Wallace Collection Catalogue of Sevres Porcelain, References, Appendices, Index. London: The Trustees of the Wallace Collection, 1988, pp. 981-982.