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Leonardo da Vinci works, such as a Figure of Christ
by a 12th-century Burgundian
in France sculptor and a Head of St Peter.
Leonardo, artist, engineer, With its eight black-hooded
and scientist, was born mourners, the Tomb of Philippe
in 1452 and became a Pot (a high-ranking official in
leading figure in the Italian Burgundy) is one of the more
Renaissance. François I met unusual pieces. Diane de
Leonardo in 1515 and Poitiers, mistress of Henri II, had
invited him to live and a large figure of her namesake
work in France. The painter Diana, goddess of the hunt,
brought the Mona Lisa with installed in the courtyard of
him. Already in poor health, her castle west of Paris. It is
he died three years later in now in the Louvre.
the arms of the king.
Self-portrait (early 16th century) The works of Pierre Puget
(1620–94), the great sculptor
from Marseille, have been
Musée d’Orsay (see pp146–9). European Sculpture: assembled inside a glass-
Outstanding early works are 1100 to 1850 covered courtyard, Cour Puget.
Jean Fouquet’s Portrait of Charles They include a figure of Milo of
VIII (around 1450) and Gabrielle Early Flemish and German Crotona, the Greek athlete who
d’Estrée, mistress of Henri IV, in sculpture in the collection has got his hands caught in the cleft
her bathtub with her sister many masterpieces, such as of a tree stump and was eaten
(1594). From the 16th and Tilman Riemenschneider’s Virgin by a lion. The wild horses of
17th centuries there are several of the Annunciation from the Marly now stand in the glass-
splendid works by Georges end of the 15th century and an roofed Cour Marly, surrounded
de la Tour. unusual life-size, nude figure of by other masterpieces of French
That great 18th-century the penitent Mary Magdalen by sculpture, including Houdon’s
painter of melancholy, Jean Gregor Erhart (early 16th early 19th-century busts of
Watteau, is represented, as is century). An ornate gilded- Diderot and Voltaire, and two
J H Fragonard, master of the wood altarpiece of the same equestrian pieces by Coysevox.
Rococo. His delightfully frivolous period exemplifies Flemish The Italian sculpture collec-
subjects are evident in The church art. Another important tion includes pre-Renaissance
Bathers from 1770. In stark work of Flemish sculpture is work by Duccio and Donatello,
contrast is the Classicism of Adrian de Vries’ long-limbed and later masterpieces such
Nicolas Poussin and the history Mercury and Psyche from 1593, as Michelangelo’s Slaves and
painting of JL David. Most of which was originally made for Cellini’s Fontainebleau Nymph.
JD Ingres’ work is in the Musée the court of Rudolph II in
d’Orsay, but the Louvre kept the Prague. The French section Tomb of Philippe Pot (late 15th century) by
erotic Turkish Bath of 1862. opens with early Romanesque Antoine le Moiturier

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