Collot M.-A., (1748-1821), sculptor

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COLLOT Marie-Anne (1748-1821), sculptor. Studied in Paris under E.M. Falconet. In 1766 she went together with him to St. Petersburg, becoming a member of the Academy of Arts in 1767. She sculpted marble busts of Prince G.G. Orlov (1772) and Tsesarevitch Pavel Pavlovich (1775) both at the State Russian Museum); and those of Voltaire (about 1770), Falconet (1770), D. Diderot (1772; all at the State Hermitage. Her most important work is a model of Peter the Great's head for The Bronze Horseman (1767, gypsum, the State Russian Museum). In 1777 she married artist P.E. Falconet, the son of her teacher. She left Russia in 1778.

Reference: Каганович А. Л. "Медный всадник": История создания монумента. 2-е изд., доп. Л., 1982.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Collot Marie-Anne
Diderot Denis
Falconet Etienne Maurice
Falkonet P.E.
Orlov Grigory Grigorievich, Count
Paul (Pavel) I, Emperor
Peter I, Emperor
Voltaire Francois Marie Arouet
Каганович А. Л. "Медный всадник": История создания монумента. 2-е изд., доп. Л., 1982 Academy of Arts
Academy of Arts
Russian Museum, State
Hermitage
Hermitage
Bronze Horseman