Goujon, JEAN

Goujon, JEAN, the most skilful sculptor of France during the 16th century. The date and place of his birth are not known. The finest productions of his chisel are a figure of 'Diana reclining by a Stag,' now in the Louvre, a remarkably vigorous and graceful work; the reliefs for ornamenting the Fountain of the Innocents, also in the Louvre; the sepulchral monument to the Duke of Brézé, in Rouen Cathedral—if it is by him—executed some time between 1540 and 1552; and several reliefs in the Louvre, where Goujon worked from 1555 to 1562, especially four Caryatides. He was a Huguenot, but seems to have died before the Bartholomew massacre in 1572.