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Gois, Etienne-Pierre-Adrien
(b Paris, 31 Jan 1731; d Paris, 3 Feb 1823). French sculptor. A pupil of the painter Etienne Jeaurat and then of René-Michel Slodtz, he won the Prix de Rome in 1757 and, after a period at the Ecole Royale des Elèves Protégés, was at the Académie de France in Rome from 1761 to 1764. On his return to France he was accepted (agréé) by the Académie Royale in 1765 and received (reçu) as a full member in 1770 on presentation of a marble bust of Louis XV (Versailles, Château), a work made under the direct influence of Jean-Baptiste II Lemoyne. He had a successful official career, and was made a professor at the Académie Royale in 1781. He sculpted two marble statues for the series of ‘Grands Hommes’ commissioned by Charles-Claude de Flahaut de la Billarderie, Comte d’Angiviller, director of the Bâtiments du Roi: Chancellor Michel de l’Hôpital (exh. Salon 1777; Versailles, Château), of whom he later executed a bust for the Galerie des Consuls in the Tuileries, Paris (marble, exh. Salon 1801; Paris, Louvre), and President Mathieu Molé (exh. Salon 1789; Paris, Louvre). The two statues, generously draped, have the highly expressive features characteristic also of Gois’s portrait busts, such as Chevalier Guilleaumeau de Fréval (marble, 1770; Cardiff, N. Mus.), Daniel-Charles Trudaine (marble, 1778–9; Chaalis, Mus. Abbaye) and his masterpiece, the Portrait of the Artist’s Father (terracotta, 1760; Dijon, Mus. B.-A.).
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