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(2) Louis-Félix Delarue
(b Paris, 19 Oct 1730; d Paris, 24 June 1777). Draughtsman and sculptor, brother of (1) Philibert-Benoît de La Rue. He was a pupil of Lambert-Sigisbert Adam and won the Prix de Rome in 1750. He entered the Ecole Royale des Elèves Protégés in 1752 and was employed soon afterwards at the Vincennes porcelain factory together with other sculptors, such as Pierre Blondeau ( fl c. 1753–76) and Jean-Baptiste Defernex, to model figures from designs by Boucher. Among Delarue’s works for Vincennes were four vigorously modelled groups of Three Children (1754), known as the ‘Enfants La Rue’, who play, respectively, with a fish, a bird, a bunch of grapes and a conch. Also in 1754 he executed a group known as Bacchus with a Panther, with three naked children around the animal, and two paperweights decorated with playing children (Paris, Mus. A. Déc.) intended for the financier Machault d’Arnouville. He left for the Académie de France in Rome later the same year, but remained there for less than a year. After his return to France via Parma, he was admitted to the Académie de Saint-Luc in 1760 on presentation of a terracotta model of a River-god (untraced). He exhibited at the Salons of this institution in 1762 and 1764.
Part of the La Rue, de family
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