The ''Bust of Cardinal Richelieu'' is a marble sculpture by the Italian sculptor
Gian Lorenzo Bernini, situated at
the Louvre
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in
Paris
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Richelieu had hoped to commission Bernini to make a full-length sculpture, through his friend
Jules Mazarin
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and the French ambassador in Rome
François Annibal d'Estrées
François-Annibal d'Estrées, duc d'Estrées (1573 – 5 May 1670) was a French diplomat, soldier and Marshal of France.
Biography
François-Annibal d'Estrées was the son of Antoine d'Estrées and Françoise Babou de La Bourdaisière, and ...
, but
Pope Urban VIII would not permit it, so the sculpture became a bust, sculpted by Bernini between November 1640 and January 1641. He worked from images of
Cardinal Richelieu that had been sent to Rome from France.
Once completed, the bust was transported to Paris.
[Rudolf Wittkower, ''Bernini, the Sculptor of the Roman Baroque'', 1997 (4th ed.), p. 260.]
The bust arrived in Paris in August 1640, but Richelieu was not happy with the work, quickly commissioning another bust by
Jean Warin
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Gallery
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See also
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List of works by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
References
External links
{{Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Busts by Gian Lorenzo Bernini
1640s sculptures
Monuments and memorials in France
Marble sculptures in France
Busts in France