Apollo Tended by the Nymphs

sculpture by Girardon

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In François Girardon
…his most famous work, the Apollo Tended by the Nymphs, for the Grotto of Thetis at Versailles. The inspiration for this pictorial sculptural work (later moved and its grouping altered) seems to derive partly from Hellenistic sculpture (particularly the Apollo Belvedere) and partly from Nicolas Poussin’s paintings. Of his other…
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