Jean-Louis Couasnon

Jean-Louis Couasnon (1747-1802) was a French sculptor who specialized in portraits of living people.

In 1777 he was working for the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, for whom he made painted cartoons of Louis XVI of France and Marie Antoinette He exhibited at the Salon de la Correspondance in 1779 and in 1785.

[2] Couasnon specialized in portraiture, particularly of children, and rendered their expressions with great sweetness and resemblance.

1780), daughter of the architect and designer Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart, when she was aged four.

Couasnon rendered the eyes in same way, with bowl-shaped irises and deeply carved pupils, but in contrast to Houdon's masterful work the hair is stiff and the dress is complicated.