ANGUIER, FRANOIS; AND ANGUIER, MICHEL-ANDR

(respectively, b. c. 1604, Eu, Fr.d. Aug. 9, 1669, Paris; b. c. 1613, Eud. July 11, 1686, Paris), French sculptors who produced decorations for tombs, churches, palaces, and public monuments. Beginning their training in France, they went in about 1641 to Rome, where they studied in the workshop of the Baroque sculptor Alessandro Algardi (Franois until 1643 and Michel-Andr until 1651). The brothers collaborated between 1648 and 1652 on a tomb for Henri II, Duke de Montmorency, at Moulins. Franois's most characteristic work is the funerary statue of Gasparde de la Chtre, second wife of the historian Jacques de Thou, in the Louvre, Paris. Michel-Andr was employed in the decoration of Anne of Austria's apartments in the Louvre, modeled on Pietro da Cortona's decorations in the Pitti Palace in Florence. Michel-Andr worked at Vaux-le-Vicomtethe chteau of Louis XIV's minister Nicolas Fouquet, near Melunwith Charles Le Brun and Andr Le Ntre. His most important commission, completed in 1667, was the decoration of the Church of Val-de-Grce in Paris, to which he contributed reliefs and a marble nativity group for the high altar (1665), now in the Church of Saint-Roch in Paris. His reliefs for the triumphal arch of the Porte Saint-Denis, executed in a severely classical style, were completed in 1674.