# Parnasse français [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [GARNIER, Louis]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Bronze, height over 2 m ## Commentary Garnier's best-known work is the remarkable and strikingly original Parnasse français. It is an elaborate bronze group, over 2 m high, commissioned by Evrard Titon du Tillet and celebrating artists, musicians and writers of the reign of Louis XIV. The King, in the guise of Apollo and seated on top of Mt Parnassus, is surrounded by the three Graces, personified by the poets Antoinette Deshoulières, Henriette de La Suze and Madeleine de Scudéry. Below are statuettes of Corneille, Racine, Molière, Lully, La Fontaine etc. Other notable figures are represented by portrait medallions. Titon later commissioned Augustin Pajou to add Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Prosper Crébillon and Voltaire. ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()