# ATTIRET, Claude-François [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1728–1804 - Profession: sculptor - School: French ## Biography French sculptor. He was the son of a joiner, who sent him to Paris to train with Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. In 1757 Attiret was in Rome, where he received a prize from the Accademia di S Luca; returning to Paris, he was accepted as a member of the Académie de St Luc in 1760, and was a professor there. He exhibited several times at the Salon of the Académie de St Luc: among the works that he showed was Roman Charity \(terracotta, 1726; Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts\); Hannibal Preparing to Take Poison \(terracotta, 1764\); and the Chercheuse d'esprit \(terracotta, 1774; Dijon, Musée des Beaux-Arts; marble version, Paris, private collection\). This idealized portrait bust of a young woman, graceful in concept and mischievous in expression, is his best-known work. ## Related artworks - [La Chercheuse d'esprit]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()