Falconet

This would allow him to vie with Étienne-Maurice Falconet, sculptor of the Bronze Horseman monument to Peter the Great in St. Petersburg 1782, for immortal fame.

Our First President, in Three Dimensions Catesby Leigh 2011

With the possible exceptions of Falconet and Clodion, he is the only French eighteenth-century sculptor whose name and works are as familiar to the general public as those of half a dozen or more painters of the same period.

Luxe et Veritas Honour, Hugh 1976

French critic Falconet, who could not discover the point of contact which united the two parts of this celebrated picture.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

Mr Fuseli, whose criticism is always acute, and generally just and true, has well discussed the subject, and properly commented upon the flippancy of Falconet.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

Catherine II. had Falconet model a _Peter the Great_ mounted on a fiery horse climbing up

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

The design is due to the Frenchman Falconet; Marie Callot is said to have modelled the head, and the casting was done by Martelli, an Italian.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

The pertness of Falconet is unworthy grave criticism and the subject, though it is quoted by Sir Joshua Reynolds.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

Falconet, in order to be true to the life, carefully studied again and again a fine Arab horse, mounted by a Russian general who was famous as a rider; the general day by day made a rush up a mound, artificially constructed for the purpose, and when just short of the precipice the horse was reined in and thrown on its hind legs.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

The arrival of the Hartmanns created no little excitement in the Falconet family, both among the sons and the daughters.

Inversion. 1908

Falconet was at the height of his reputation in his own country; in leaving it he seems to have been actuated by no other motive than the desire of an opportunity of erecting an immense monument of his art, though Diderot's eloquence was not wanting.

Diderot and the Encyclopædists Volume II. John Morley 1880