Discover sculptor Petrus Laviron

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: Lavrom, Peter
Laviron, Pierre

Qualifications: sculptor

Nationality/school: South Netherlandish
His parents were French.

Born: Antwerp (city) 1650-11/1650-11-13
baptized on 13 November 1650 in St. Joris Church (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, vol.2, p. 337-8, note 4)

Deceased: Paris 1685-11-07

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: son of Dominicus Laviron and Maria Conuty (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, vol. 2, p. 337-8, note 4)

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Antwerpen (stad) 1662 - 1663
apprentice in the Guild (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, vol. 2, p. 337)
Parijs 1676 - 1683
His name is mentioned three times as the first price winner of the Academy in Paris, going for the 'Prix de Rome'' (Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961, vol. 2, p. 337-8, note 4
Rome 1678 - 1682
travelled back from Rome to Paris with Abraham Genoels II and two French sculptors, Caralier and Monier, following the route below (Houbraken 1721)
Florence
Siena (plaats)
Pisa (stad)
Livorno (stad)
Genua
Nice
Villefranche-sur-Mer
La Ciotat
Marseille
from Marseille on mules to Avignon (Houbraken 1721)
Avignon
Lyon
from Lyon on horseback to 'Forraren' (Houbraken 1721)
Clermont-Ferrand
probably, if 'Forraren' mentioned by Houbraken can be identified with Clermond-Ferrand (R. van Leeuwen, June 2021)
Orléans (Loiret)
Parijs
Versailles 1682 - 1685

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Literature

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 3 (1721), p. 104 (as: Laviron)
Von Wurzbach 1906-1911 , vol. 2 (1910), p. 19 (as: Laviron)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 22 (1928), p. 478 (as: Pierre Laviron)
Rombouts/Van Lerius 1872/1961 , vol. 2, p. 337, 338**, 340 (as: Laviron, Petrus)
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

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Creation date: 2019-04-27; Last modified date: 2023-03-27

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