{{Short description|French sculptor}} '''Jean-Louis Brian''' (1805 Avignon-1864 Paris) was a French sculptor.
Brian was a pupil of David d'Angers. In 1832, he won, together with François Jouffroy, the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture with his statue ''Capanée foudroyé sous les murs de Thèbes.''
==Main works== thumb|Calvet, sculptures004 BRIAN Jean-Louis Faune1840b * ''Jeanne d'Albret'', statue, stone, Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg * ''Saint Marc'', statue, stone, Paris, place Franz Liszt, facade of the church of Saint Vincent de Paul * ''Caryatid'', stone, Paris, Palais du Louvre * ''Portrait of Pierre-Marie Baillot'', violinist, 1772–1842, marble, Versailles, Palace of Versailles * ''Portrait of Joseph Romain-Desfossés'', admiral, 1798–1864, bust, marble, Versailles, Palace of Versailles * ''Portrait of Leo Strozzi'', prior of Capua, general of the galleys, 1515–1554, 1840, bust, plaster, Versailles, Palace of Versailles * ''Faun standing looking at its tail'', Avignon, Calvet Museum, marble, 1840
==References== * Simone Hoog, (preface by Jean-Pierre Babelon, in collaboration with Roland Brossard), ''Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I- Le musée, Réunion des musées nationaux'', Paris, 1993 * Pierre Kjellberg, ''Le Nouveau guide des statues de Paris'', La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1988 * Emmanuel Schwartz, ''Les Sculptures de l'École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Histoire, doctrines, catalogue'', École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2003
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