Background
He was born in Paris and trained with his father, André Pilon. Documents show that he and his father executed several religious statues and tomb effigies in collaboration. Since Connat & Colombier established that Germain was born c.
1525 (rather than about ten years later, as previously believed), several early works have been reattributed to him, including the marble grouping Diana with a Stag (originally at the Château d"Anet, Eure-et-Loire.
Now at the Louvre).