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2 unusual facts about François Joseph Bosio


François Joseph Bosio

Though under Louis-Philippe he was stripped of his titles, he continued to receive official commissions, as the ablest portrait sculptor in Paris, and created the statue of Napoleon for the Column of the Grande Armée in 1840 under Napoleon III.

Louis XVIII made Bosio a Knight of the Order of Saint Michael in 1821 and appointed him premier sculpteur du Roi.


Monte-Carlo Television Festival

The best of worldwide television programming has been rewarded with the Golden Nymphs statuettes, copies of the “Salmacis” Nymph by the Monegasque sculptor François Joseph Bosio (1768-1845), the original of which is on show at the Louvre Museum in Paris.


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