Catalogue
- Year
- 1550
- Medium
- Carved walnut
- Dimensions
- 22 × 17 7/8 in. (55.9 × 45.4 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Jean Goujon
Artist
Sculpture
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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Bath House from Hyperotomachie ou discours du son gede Poliphile, plate 69 from Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century
1554 · Woodcut on paper
Descent from the Cross
1550 · Alabaster with traces of gilding
Panel
1550 · Carved walnut
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[Entrée d'Henri II] C'est l'ordre qui a este tenu a la nouvelle et ioyeuse entrée que tres hault, tresexcellent et trespuissant Prince le Roy treschrestien Henry deuzieme de ce nom à faicte en sa bonne ville et cité de Paris...
1549 · bound volume with 1 woodcut headpiece and 11 woodcut illustrations including 2 fold-outs on laid paper
Atlantis
1510 · Red chalk, with stumping, on cream laid paper
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- Jean Goujon
- Year
- 1550
- Medium
- Carved walnut
- Dimensions
- 22 × 17 7/8 in. (55.9 × 45.4 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1550-T001119
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified