ANGUIER, FRANÇOIS and MICHEL. – French sculptors from Eu, pupils of S. Guillain. FRANÇOIS (1604–69) executed numerous funerary monuments, among which noteworthy are those of Henry de Montmorency in the chapel of the Lycée of Moulins (the former convent of the Visitandines), and of Jacques-Auguste de Thou, now in the Louvre. His brother MICHEL (1612–86) was in Rome and trained in the milieu dominated by Bernini and Algardi: the influence of the former is visible in the group of the Nativity, executed for the Parisian church of Val-de-Grâce (the original is now in the church of S. Rocco). Michel also contributed to the decoration of the Porte Saint-Denis in Paris.
BIBL.: I. Gonse, La sculpture française depuis le XIVe siècle, Paris 1875; A. Samson, Les frères A., Paris 1889. Saverio Pisani