Pierre Simon Jaillot - Christ In Ivory (cm 42) 1631-1681

 Pierre Simon Jaillot trained alongside his brother Alexis Hubert in Saint-Claude[2]. Initially a member of the Academy of Saint-Luc, he was received at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture on May 28, 1661, presenting an ivory sculpture: A dying Christ on the cross. With a violent temperament, he insulted the painter Charles Le Brun and his protector Pierre Séguier, which earned him exclusion from the Academy in 1673[3] after the publication of an insulting libel[2]. His reception piece was offered to the hospital of Petites-maisons. He died in his house on Quai des Augustins and was buried on 24 September 1681, at a religious service in Saint-André-des-Arcs. Émile Bellier de la Chavignerie cites other Jaillots who attended the burial of his brother Alexis-Hubert Jaillot, without specifying their family ties: Hubert-Joseph Jaillot, advisor to the king, master of waters and forests and captain of the hunts of Fontainebleau and Bernard-Jean-Hyacinthe Jaillot, geographer to the king, living on Quai de l'Horloge.
Located
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Figures of a Crucifixion, ivory, 1664; historical: de Meymard, curé of Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois, 1787; Fernand Robert, sale Paris, May, 1903; acquired at this sale by Lord Astor; then appears at the sale of Hever Castle, London, Sotheby's, May 4, 1983, no. 332; acquired at this sale by an American collector who cannot export the object because it has been banned from leaving British territory; purchased in 1983 from the American collector via Sotheby's by the Victoria and Albert Museum thanks to the Art Fund. Paris, Musée du Louvre, Saint Sebastian, ivory, 0.32 m, 1662, pre-empted on October 11, 2014 at an auction in Dijon[1]. Saint-Cloud, Musée du Grand Siècle, Christ on the cross in ivory, 41 x 28.5 cm, signed and dated 1664