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Poissant, Thibault
(b Estrées-lès-Crécy, Somme, 1605; d Paris, 16 Sept 1668). French sculptor and architect. His brother, Antoine Poissant ( fl 1651–88), was also a sculptor. Thibault was trained in his native Picardy, first in Abbeville with the wood-carver Martin Caron, in whose workshop François Anguier was a contemporary, then around 1638–40 with Nicolas Blasset in Amiens. In 1641 he went to the Paris studio of Jacques Sarazin and worked under his master’s supervision at the Louvre and the Palais Cardinal. In 1642 he was sent to Rome by François Sublet des Noyers, the Surintendant des Bâtiments du Roi, to complete his artistic education. In Rome Poissant worked with other young French artists making models after antique works under the direction of Nicolas Poussin. Following the disgrace of Sublet in 1643, Poissant was supported by Paul Fréart de Chatelou, but he showed his benefactor little gratitude and on his return to Paris in 1647 omitted to give him the works he had executed in Rome.
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