Jacques Prou (1655–1706) was a French Academic Baroque sculptor, a product of the Academy system overseen by Charles Le Brun. Trained in the Academy school in Paris,. he spent four years (1676–80) refining his style at the French Academy in Rome, then returned to Paris to become a member of the team of the Bâtiments du Roi from 1681, providing sculpture for Versailles in the atelier of Jean-Baptiste Tuby, whose daughter he married. He was received as a full member of the Académie royale de… Read more...

Jean-Baptiste Tuby (1635–1700) was a French sculptor of Italian origins who served Louis XIV of France and was regarded, with Antoine Coysevox, as one of the premier court sculptors of his time. He was born in Rome in 1635 and died in Paris in 1700. His work is remarkable for its extraordinary precision of symmetry and three-dimensional volume, its explosively animated forms, and for a delicate sense of embellishment and even humor. He is most renowned for the magnificent bronze centerpiece of… Read more...

Marc Arcis (1655–1739, Toulouse) was a French sculptor. He trained the painter Antoine Rivalz. He produced busts for a galerie des Illustres in Toulouse between 1674 and 1677. In Paris, he took part in the interior decoration of the église de la Sorbonne and produced works for Versailles. After 1690, he based himself solely in Toulouse, decorating several chapels and the churches of Saint-Sernin and Saint-Étienne there. Read more...