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(3) Paul-Ambroise Slodtz
(b Paris, 2 July 1702; d Paris, 15 Dec 1758). Sculptor, son of (1) Sébastien Slodtz. He frequently collaborated with his elder brother (2) Sébastien-Antoine, whom he succeeded in the office of Dessinateur de la Chambre et du Cabinet du Roi in 1754. In 1743 he was received (reçu) as a member of the Académie Royale with a marble statue of the Fall of Icarus (Paris, Louvre; see fig.), a work of considerable distinction in conception and execution. However, his work, apart from that on which he collaborated with Sébastien-Antoine, is not extensive. It included a marble statue of Joan of Arc as Pallas Athena (1753–5; destr.), made for the city of Rouen, where he was a member of the Académie. His signature appears on the bas-reliefs of the Communion Chapel at St Merry, Paris.
Part of the Slodtz family
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