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Francin, Claude(-Clair)
(b Strasbourg, Bas-Rhin, 5 June 1702; d Bourg-la-Reine, Hauts-de-Seine, 18 March 1773). French sculptor. He was the son of the sculptor François-Alexis Francin (b before 1670, d before 1726) and nephew on his mother’s side of Nicolas Coustou and Guillaume Coustou (i); he was also the latter’s pupil. He married the daughter of Pierre Le Pautre (ii). After spending six years at the Académie de France in Rome, he lived from 1737 to 1747 in Paris, where he was much in demand for work in such churches as St André-des-Arts, the Oratory of St Honoré and particularly St Roch, which still has his two stone Angel-musicians, situated under the organ loft and executed in a light and charming style. For Louis XV he sculpted a nude Ganymede (Baltimore, MD, Walters A.G.), a marble work of extreme delicacy that remained unfinished. He often exhibited his work at the Salon.
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