Jean-Jacques Clérion (16 April 1637 – 28 April 1714) was a French sculptor who worked mainly for

King Louis XIV Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great () or the Sun King (), was List of French monarchs, King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the Li ...

. Clérion was born in either

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence (, , ; oc, label= Provençal, Ais de Provença in classical norm, or in Mistralian norm, ; la, Aquae Sextiae), or simply Aix ( medieval Occitan: ''Aics''), is a city and commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. ...

or Trets. For much of his career he worked on the

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, including many of the famous garden sculptures, such as the "Apollo Fountain". His admission piece to the

Académie française An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, secondary or tertiary education, tertiary higher education, higher learning (and generally also research or honorary membershi ...

, a 1689

bas relief Relief is a sculptural method in which the sculpted pieces are bonded to a solid background of the same material. The term ''relief'' is from the Latin verb ''relevo'', to raise. To create a sculpture in relief is to give the impression that the ...

Saint James the Less James the Less ( grc-gre, Ἰάκωβος ὁ μικρός ) is a figure of early Christianity, one of the Twelve chosen by Jesus. He is also called "the Minor", "the Little", "the Lesser", or "the Younger", according to translation. He is not to ...

, may be seen in the

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. He also produced a copy of the

Kallipygian Venus The ''Venus Callipyge'', also known as the ''Aphrodite Kallipygos'' ( el, Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος) or the ''Callipygian Venus'', all literally meaning "Venus (or Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks", is an Ancient Roman marble stat ...

for Louis XIV's

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in 1686, and a copy of the Medici Venus which may be seen at the Château de Menars. He died in

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External links

St James the Lesser, 1689, by Jean-Jacques Clérion, Louvre

Works by Jean-Jacques Clérion on the Louvre collections database
1637 births 1714 deaths 17th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 18th-century French sculptors People from Aix-en-Provence 18th-century French male artists {{France-sculptor-stub