Jean-Baptiste Mauzaisse

His father was the organist at Corbeil Cathedral, and could not afford to pay for Jean-Baptiste's studies.

At the age of nineteen, he left home and was able to find a position in the studios of François-André Vincent, at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

His début at the Salon came in 1808, and he obtained a first-class gold medal there in 1812, for Arab Lamenting the Death of His Courser.

These included decorating the apartments of King Louis XVIII, the figures of Prometheus and Tantalus for the Musée de Picardie in Amiens (1819), and several plafonds at the Louvre (1822), in what is now known as the "Salle des Bijoux".

These feature figures representing Science, Art, Commerce, and War, as well as the four seasons.