He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, at Gillet. From 1794 he taught sculpture at the Academy. Died in 1802. From his works, . respond to a large extent the direction of French sculpture end of the XVIII century, . best known: the monument to Suvorov in Petrograd, . colossal statue of Samson, . rending jaws of a lion ", . decorates the main Peterhof fountain, . marble statues: "Seated Girl" (in the Winter Palace), . "Hymen", . performed on the occasion of the marriage of Crown Prince Constantine Pavlovich (in the Winter Palace), . male figure for the study of human anatomy (ecorche) and bas-reliefs: "The Return of Regulus to Carthage" and "Camille, . relieving Rome from the Gauls "(both in the Marble Palace, . Petrograd),
. In the museum of Alexander III - "Polycrates", "Mercury and the nymph", "Massacre of the Innocents," "Cupid," "Apollo".
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