# Jacques Prou

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{{short description|French sculptor}}

[[File:Prou Marie Casimire Sobieska.jpg|thumb|right|Prou's ''Bust of Marie Casimire Sobieska'' (c. 1680), [Wilanów Palace](/source/Wilan%C3%B3w_Palace) in [Warsaw](/source/Warsaw).]]

'''Jacques Prou''' (1655–1706) was a French Academic [Baroque](/source/Baroque) sculptor, a product of the Academy system overseen by [Charles Le Brun](/source/Charles_Le_Brun). Trained in the Academy school in Paris.<ref>He was the son of Jacques Prou or Proust, Parisian ''[menuisier](/source/menuisier)'' or wood-worker. (Seymour 1952:290, note 22). His Mother was Marie Enguerrand, his aunt Perrine Prou married Mathieu de Lespagnandelle (E.Clause)</ref> he spent four years (1676–80) refining his style at the [French Academy in Rome](/source/French_Academy_in_Rome), then returned to Paris to become a member of the team of the ''[Bâtiments du Roi](/source/B%C3%A2timents_du_Roi)'' from 1681, providing sculpture for [Versailles](/source/Palace_of_Versailles) in the atelier of [Jean-Baptiste Tuby](/source/Jean-Baptiste_Tuby), whose daughter he married. He was received as a full member of the [Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture](/source/Acad%C3%A9mie_royale_de_peinture_et_de_sculpture) in 1682, presenting as his [reception piece](/source/reception_piece) a bas-relief of ''Sculpture consulting Painting over the portrait of Louis XIV'', now at the [Musée du Louvre](/source/Mus%C3%A9e_du_Louvre), which reveals his concern for surface textures adapted from the dominant art, painting<ref>(Seymour 1952:290-91). Prou was later made an assistant professor, 1701, and full professor at the Academy in 1704.</ref> At Versailles he became closely associated in projects for fountains and emblematic decorative sculpture with [Antoine Coysevox](/source/Antoine_Coysevox), notably in the ''Escalier des princes'', the ''salon'' opening onto it, and the ''Salon de la Guerre''.<ref>[Jules Guiffrey](/source/Jules_Guiffrey), ''Comptes des Bâtiments du Roi'', ii-iv, noted by Seymour 1952:22.</ref>

For Versailles he carved a vase on the theme ''The Infant Mars'', following a design from the office of [Jules Hardouin-Mansart](/source/Jules_Hardouin-Mansart).<ref>Known through an engraving by Thomassin.</ref> His work for [Marly](/source/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Marly), 1683–84 and 1705, has disappeared.

His marble memorial portrait bust of the recently deceased [Philippe de France, duc d'Orléans](/source/Philippe_I%2C_Duke_of_Orl%C3%A9ans), only brother of [Louis XIV](/source/Louis_XIV), was exhibited at the [Paris salon](/source/Paris_salon) of 1704.<ref>The bust was identified in the [National Gallery of Art](/source/National_Gallery_of_Art), Washington DC, by Charles Seymour Jr, "A Group of royal portrait-busts from the reign of Louis XIV" ''The Art Bulletin'' '''34'''.4 (December 1952, pp. 285-296) p 289ff.</ref>

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==References==
*Lami, S. ''Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l'école française du règne de Louis XIV'' (Paris) 1906, pp 415–17..

==External links==
* {{FrenchSculptureCensus}}

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