# Bust of Nicolas Le Jay

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## Artwork

- Artist: [BIARD, Pierre the Younger](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/biard-pierre-the-younger-r97d33f4a9e6c38>)
- Date: 1601-1650
- Technique: Marble, height 52 cm

## Commentary

The funerary statue of Nicolas Le Jay, Garde des Sceaux \(1573-1640\) was made in accordance with his will in 1636 for his tomb in the church of the Minims on the Place Royale in Paris. It accompanied a kneeling statue of Madeleine Marchand. The bust was cut away from the large kneeling statue when the figure was installed in the Musée des Monuments Français during the Revolution.

## Related artworks

- [Apollo and the Spirit of Sculpture](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/biard-pierre-the-younger-r97d33f4a9e6c38/apollo-and-the-spirit-of-sculpture-r5505c64bb86433>)
- [Portrait of an Old Man](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/biard-pierre-the-younger-r97d33f4a9e6c38/portrait-of-an-old-man-r722fb352ed00d0>)

## Attribution

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