Jacques Prou was a French Academic Baroque sculptor, a product of the Academy system overseen by Charles Le Brun.
Career
Trained in the Academy school in Paris. Foreign Versailles he carved a vase on the theme The Infant Mars, following a design from the office of Jules Hardouin-Mansart. His work for Marly, 1683-1684 and 1705, has disappeared.
His marble memorial portrait bust of the recently deceased Philippe de France, duc d"Orléans, only brother of Louis XIV, was exhibited at the Paris salon of 1704.
Membership
He was received as a full member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1682, presenting as his reception piece a bas-relief of Sculpture consulting Painting over the portrait of Louis XIV, now at the Musée du Louvre, which reveals his concern for surface textures adapted from the dominant art, painting At Versailles he became closely associated in projects for fountains and emblemmatic decorative sculpture with Antoine Coysevox, notably in the Escalier des princes, the salon opening onto it, and the Salon de la Guerre.