# The Sculptor François Girardon

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## Artwork

- Artist: [VIVIEN, Joseph](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vivien-joseph-rc8f52743ebaaab>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Pastel on blue paper, 70 x 80 cm

## Commentary

This portrait is one of the two admission pieces that Vivien presented in 1701 to the Académie Royal de Peinture et de Sculpture in Paris. Utilising either paint or pastel, candidates for portraiture were required to depict two former members occupying a high position in the hierarchy of the Académie, and were admitted or refused on the strength of these two pieces.

## Related artworks

- [Fénélon, Archbishop of Cambrai](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vivien-joseph-rc8f52743ebaaab/fnlon-archbishop-of-cambrai-r699a7ca40e9435>)
- [Maximilian Emanuel, Prince Elector of Bavaria](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/vivien-joseph-rc8f52743ebaaab/maximilian-emanuel-prince-elector-of-bavaria-rf302d4e718dd3f>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)