Jean-Joseph Foucou (1739 – 16 February 1821) was a French sculptor. Foucou was born at

Riez Riez (; Provençal: ''Riés'') is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. Geography The densely built village sits where two small rivers join—the Auvestre and the Colostre—in a glacially wid ...

, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. A student at the École de peinture et de sculpture of

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, he went to Paris, where he entered the workshop of

Jean-Jacques Caffieri Jean-Jacques Caffieri (29 April 1725 – 22 June 1792) was a French sculptor. He was appointed ''sculpteur du Roi'' to Louis XV and later afforded lodgings in the Galeries du Louvre. He designed the fine ''rampe d'escalier'' which still adorns the ...

. In 1769 he won the

Prix de Rome The Prix de Rome () or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France. Winners were awarded a bursary that allowed them t ...

in sculpture, and entered the École royale des élèves protégés in preparation for his residence in Rome, 1771-75. On his return to Paris he was accepted (''agrée'') in 1777 at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, where he was made a full member in 1785, with a marble of a ''River'' for his ''morceau de reception''. He was a regular contributor to the Paris Salons from 1779 to 1812. Foucou was one of the main artists whose work was included in the collection of the

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at the end of the 18th century. Others were Jean-Baptiste d'Huez, Simon-Louis Boizot, Augustin Pajou and Pierre-François Berruer. He collaborated with Pierre Julien in the marble sculpture for the dairy for Marie Antoinette at Château de Rambouillet, and worked among other sculptors on grand Parisian projects, such as the

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. He was one of the numerous sculptors called upon to provide bronze bas-relief panels for the Place Vendôme Column celebrating Napoleon's victory at Austerlitz. Foucou worked in collaboration with sculptors

Joseph Espercieux Jean-Joseph Espercieux (22 July 1757 in Marseille – 6 July 1840 in Paris) was a French sculptor. Life A carpenter's son, he moved to Paris in 1776 to study in the studio of Charles-Antoine Bridan and (on an irregular basis) those of Jean-J ...

Pierre Petitot Pierre Petitot (11 December 1760, in Langres – 7 November 1840, in Paris) was a French sculptor. Petitot initially studied under Claude François Devosge at the École des Beaux-Arts in Dijon. In 1788 he won the first major sculpture prize fou ...

and

Pierre Cartellier Pierre Cartellier (2 December 1757 – 12 June 1831) was a French sculptor. Biography Born in Paris, he studied at the École Gratuite de Dessin in Paris and then in the studio of Charles-Antoine Bridan before attending the Académie Roya ...

. He died in

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