François Lanno
French artist (1800-1871)
François Gaspard Aimé Lanno (1800 in Rennes – 1871 in Beaumont-du-Gâtinais) was a French sculptor. He was a pupil of François-Frédéric Lemot and Pierre Cartellier. In 1827, he won jointly with Jean-Louis Jaley the Prix de Rome for sculpture with a bas-relief Mucius Scævola devant Porsenna.
Works
Camille rompant le traité avec Brennus, 1827, bas-relief, plaster, École des Beaux Arts, Paris
Mucius Scævola devant Porsenna, 1827, bas-relief, plaster, École des Beaux Arts, Paris
Joven Mercurio, 1829, marble, École des Beaux Arts, Paris
François Fénelon, one of the figures at the Fountain of the Four Bishops, stone, Place Saint-Sulpice, Paris
La Récolte des fruits, statue, bronze, fountain on the Place de la Concorde, Paris
Portrait de Nicolas Poussin, Portrait de Eustache Le Sueur, medallions, Paris, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, facade of the Palais des Études
Portrait de Guillaume Gouffier, bust, plaster, Palace of Versailles, Versailles
Apollon et les neuf Muses, 1835, ten statues, theater, Rennes
Blaise Pascal, statue, stone, Cour Napoléon, Louvre, Paris
Esprit Fléchier, statue, stone, also at the Louvre
Bibliography
Pierre Kjellberg, Le Nouveau guide des statues de Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1988
Emmanuel Schwartz, Les Sculptures de l'École des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
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