Strict control over the subjects, scale, materials and to a great extent the design of sculpture for Versailles was exercised by the premier peintre du Roi, Charles Le Brun. According to Antoine-Nicolas D*zallier d'Argenville, Le Brun provided a wax model for Granier's marble group Ino and Melicertes, and a Shepherdess was sculpted after a sketch given by Le Brun. Born at Les Matelles near Montpellier, he was an official of the Acad*mie royale de peinture et de sculpture, where he was received in 1686 and to whom he had presented his bust of Louis XIV.
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