ArtistsJean Goujon
Jean Goujon

Jean Goujon

?–1567
SculptureSurrealismRenaissance
Representation
None documented
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Institutional Exhibitions
7
Works in Collection
8
Assets Indexed
6
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Movements
  • Surrealism
  • Renaissance
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Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1936–1937
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Why this artist matters now

Jean Goujon was a French Renaissance sculptor whose elegant marble reliefs and architectural ornaments defined the transition from Gothic to Classical idiom in sixteenth-century France. Working primarily in stone, he favored elongated proportions, intricate drapery, and a refined naturalism that reflected Italian influence while maintaining a distinctly French sensibility. His carved panels and fountain sculptures for royal commissions established a vocabulary of restraint and formal clarity that shaped French sculptural practice for generations.

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Surrealism
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Artworks (7)

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Bath House from Hyperotomachie ou discours du son gede Poliphile, plate 69 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century (Art Institute of Chicago)
Art Institute of Chicago
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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National Gallery of Art
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