ABOUT THE ARTWORK:
Martin Desjardins was born Martin van den Bogaert and was a French sculptor and famous stuccoist of Dutch birth, in the 1600s.
In 1671 he was received as a member of the Académie on the basis of a marble relief of ‘Hercules Crowned by Glory’ (Musée du Louvre).
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Martin Desjardins was born in the Dutch city of Breda. A son of milliner and tailor, he had a love for the arts at an early age. He started his training in the city of Antwerp and later found himself working in Paris. His works captured the best of the feminine and masculine. A lot of his works didn’t survive the French Revolution. Others are in private collections and in the lobbies of many hotels. Kisses from PARIS!!!
