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productions of the artist's chisel were brought before they were finished. Hence his disinclination to return to France, which a formal request from the Marquis de Marigny could alone overcome. | productions of the artist's chisel were brought before they were finished. Hence his disinclination to return to France, which a formal request from the Marquis de Marigny could alone overcome. | ||
He returned to Paris preceded by a reputation justified by the eagerness with which his works were sought as well as the price they commanded at public sales. From that time his career is marked by an incessant production of charming works, which purchasers immediately dispersed everywhere, without ever taxing the resources of the artist, who indeed seemed to execute them as a relaxation from the important works entrusted to him by the Chapter-house of the Rouen Cathedral, the Government of Languedoc, and the General-Director of Royal Buildings | He returned to Paris preceded by a reputation justified by the eagerness with which his works were sought as well as the price they commanded at public sales. From that time his career is marked by an incessant production of charming works, which purchasers immediately dispersed everywhere, without ever taxing the resources of the artist, who indeed seemed to execute them as a relaxation from the important works entrusted to him by the Chapter-house of the Rouen Cathedral, the Government of Languedoc, and the General-Director of Royal Buildings. | ||
He exhibited at the Salon of 1773 eleven groups or statues, which received a most flattering reception from the public, and was on the 29th of May of the same year admitted as associate to the Royal Academy, the condition of his definite admission as Academician being the eventual execution in marble of a statue of Jupiter. In 1774, a command from the Chapter of Notre Dame of Rouen to execute a statue of Saint Cecilia gave him an opportunity to return to Italy in order to survey the extraction of the marble blocks intended for that work, and also for the superintendence of the Fine Arts depart- | |||
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productions of the artist's chisel were brought before they were finished. Hence his disinclination to return to France, which a formal request from the Marquis de Marigny could alone overcome. He returned to Paris preceded by a reputation justified by the eagerness with which his works were sought as well as the price they commanded at public sales. From that time his career is marked by an incessant production of charming works, which purchasers immediately dispersed everywhere, without ever taxing the resources of the artist, who indeed seemed to execute them as a relaxation from the important works entrusted to him by the Chapter-house of the Rouen Cathedral, the Government of Languedoc, and the General-Director of Royal Buildings. He exhibited at the Salon of 1773 eleven groups or statues, which received a most flattering reception from the public, and was on the 29th of May of the same year admitted as associate to the Royal Academy, the condition of his definite admission as Academician being the eventual execution in marble of a statue of Jupiter. In 1774, a command from the Chapter of Notre Dame of Rouen to execute a statue of Saint Cecilia gave him an opportunity to return to Italy in order to survey the extraction of the marble blocks intended for that work, and also for the superintendence of the Fine Arts depart- [end of page 5]