# SLODTZ, Paul-Ambroise [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1702–1758 - Profession: sculptor - School: French ## Biography French sculptor, son of Sébastien Slodtz \(1655-1726\). He frequently collaborated with his elder brother Sébastien-Antoine \(1694-1754\), whom he succeeded in the office of Dessinateur de la Chambre et du Cabinet du Roi in 1754. In 1743 he was received as a member of the Académie Royale with a marble statue of the Fall of Icarus \(Louvre, Paris\), a work of considerable distinction in conception and execution. However, his work, apart from that on which he collaborated with Sébastien-Antoine, is not extensive. It included a marble statue of Joan of Arc as Pallas Athena \(1753-5; destroyed\), made for the city of Rouen, where he was a member of the Académie. His charming bas-relief Angels in the graceful Communion Chapel at Saint-Merry, Paris are effective and completely uniform in style - although separated in execution by more than a decade. In the porch at Saint-Sulpice the bas-reliefs are more serious and less purely charming. The decorative emphasis of Paul-Ambroise's work ultimately robs it of much individuality or robustness; he might indeed feel some jealousy of his younger brother, René-Michel. ## Related artworks - [The Dead Icarus]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()