Jean-Louis Brian (1805 Avignon-1864 Paris) was a French sculptor. Brian was a pupil of David d'Angers. In 1832, he won, together with François Jouffroy, the Premier Grand Prix de Rome in sculpture with his statue Capanée foudroyé sous les murs de Thèbes. Main works Jeanne d'Albret, statue, stone, Paris, Jardin du Luxembourg Saint Marc, statue, stone, Paris, place Franz Liszt, facade of the church of Saint Vincent de Paul Caryatid, stone, Paris, Palais du Louvre Portrait of Pierre-Marie Baillot, violinist, 1772–1842, marble, Versailles, Palace of Versailles Portrait of Joseph Romain-Desfossés, admiral, 1798–1864, bust, marble, Versailles, Palace of Versailles Portrait of Leo Strozzi, prior of Capua, general of the galleys, 1515–1554, 1840, bust, plaster, Versailles, Palace of Versailles Faun standing looking at its tail, Avignon, Calvet Museum, marble, 1840 References Simone Hoog, (preface by Jean-Pierre Babelon, in collaboration with Roland Brossard), Musée national de Versailles. Les sculptures. I- Le musée, Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1993 Pierre Kjellberg, Le Nouveau guide des statues de Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, Paris, 1988 Emmanuel Schwartz, Les Sculptures de l'École des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Histoire, doctrines, catalogue, École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, 2003 1805 births 1864 deaths Artists from Avignon Prix de Rome for sculpture 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 19th-century French male artists