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Étienne Maurice Falconet

1716 - 1791

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Étienne Maurice Falconet (1 December 1716 – 24 January 1791) was a French baroque, rococo and neoclassical sculptor, best-known for his equestrian statue of Peter the Great, the Bronze Horseman (1782), in St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Étienne Maurice Falconet has received more than 101,325 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Étienne Maurice Falconet is the 52nd most popular sculptor (down from 46th in 2019), the 1,533rd most popular biography from France (down from 1,385th in 2019) and the 12th most popular French Sculptor.

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Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Étienne Maurice Falconet ranks 52 out of 258. Before him are Naum Gabo, Tilman Riemenschneider, François Rude, Chares of Lindos, Eduardo Chillida, and Vera Mukhina. After him are Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Andreas Schlüter, Adriaen de Vries, Ageladas, Robert Smithson, and Lars Vilks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1716, Étienne Maurice Falconet ranks 3. Before him are Charles III of Spain, and Yosa Buson. After him are James Lind, Princess Philippine Charlotte of Prussia, Joseph-Marie Vien, Jean-Jacques Barthélemy, Antonio de Ulloa, Yuan Mei, Louise Diane d'Orléans, Thomas Gray, and Luis Egidio Meléndez. Among people deceased in 1791, Étienne Maurice Falconet ranks 7. Before him are Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau, Grigory Potemkin, John Wesley, Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, and Jacob Frank. After him are Ignaz von Born, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, Joseph Gaertner, João de Loureiro, Besiki, and Francesca Lebrun.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne Maurice Falconet ranks 1,533 out of 6,770. Before him are Petrus Peregrinus de Maricourt (1240), Oenomaus (-105), Raymond of Burgundy (1070), Bertrand Tavernier (1941), Charles, Duke of Mayenne (1554), and Claude of France (1547). After him are Albert Calmette (1863), Catherine de Bourbon (1559), Jacques I, Prince of Monaco (1689), Jean-Baptiste Carrier (1756), Étienne Marcel (1315), and Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon (1754).

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Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Étienne Maurice Falconet ranks 12. Before him are Paul Landowski (1875), Rosa Bonheur (1822), Antoine Bourdelle (1861), Jean-Antoine Houdon (1741), Louise Bourgeois (1911), and François Rude (1784). After him are Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714), François Girardon (1628), David d'Angers (1788), Jean Goujon (1510), César Baldaccini (1921), and Jean de Chelles (1200).

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