Barthelemy Prieur

Barthélémy Prieur (French, 1536-1611) may have trained in the Netherlands, but then went to Italy, to Turin where he worked from 1564 to 1568 for Duke Emmanuel-Philibert of Savoy. 

In 1571, the sculptor was in Paris under the architect Jean Bullant and made two of the Virtues on the Monument to the heart of Anne de Montmorency, High Constable of France. This monument is now exhibited at the Louvre Museum. The two worked together again on the tomb of the High Constable and his wife erected after 1676 in the church of Saint-Martin de Montmorency. The two recumbent figures, removed from the monument during the Revolution, can now be seen at the Louvre. In 1585 he was asked to make the monument for Christophe de Thou. The torso, the allegories, and the spirits were saved from destruction during the Revolution and can now be seen at the Louvre. The beginning of the 17th century saw the kneeling figure representing Marie de Barbançon-Cani, the first wife of President Jacques-Auguste de Thou, son of Christophe, for their sepulchral monument. The effigy, now kept at the Louvre, shows a very classical approach in the carving and expression of the model.