Étienne Maurice Falconet, French sculptor (died 1791)

Étienne Maurice Falconet

French sculptor (1716–1791)

Étienne Maurice Falconet was a French baroque, rococo and neoclassical sculptor, best-known for his equestrian statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman (1782), in St. Petersburg, Russia, and for the small statues he produced in series for the Royal Sévres Porcelain…