French sculptor to Louis XIV. He studied at the Royal Academy, Paris and the French Academy, Rome. While residing at the French Academy he produced a copy of the Callipygian Venus for King Louis XIV of France, working on it from 1683 to 1686. From 1686 to 1709 Barois worked for the Bâtiments du Roi. His Cleopatra Dying was his reception piece for the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in 1700; it is now in the Musée du Louvre. Three more of his works are also now at the Louvre: Vertemnus, Pomona, and Summer. Barois was among the large team of sculptors delivering decorative vases and other sculptural elements for the gardens of Versailles. His fluid, dramatic style anticipates the high Rococo of the mid-18th century. //