Anne of Austria
by GUILLAIN, Simon, Bronze, height 198 cm
Guillain’s only important surviving work in sculpture properly speaking is the monument erected on the Pont-au-Change in 1647, of which a relief and the three bronze figures of Louis XIII, Anne of Austria, and the young Louis XIV are in the Louvre. In their treatment of the metal they are a direct continuation of the method of Pilon, though the vitality of the Mannerist has given place to a rather conventional academic treatment of the drapery.