[Baron]. Sculptor, born at Monaco on the 19th of March 1768; died in Paris on the 29th of July 1845. He studied art, first in Paris, afterwards in Italy, and won fame through the figures which, at the request of Napoleon, he executed for the column in the Place Vendôme. For the same patron he made busts of Josephine and of Hortense, her daughter. Louis XVIII. and Charles X. also patronized Bosio; the former made him royal sculptor, the latter a baron. At the time of his death he was director of the Academy of Fine Arts in Paris. His Hyacinth and Nymph Salmacis are sculptures whose grace and refined beauty are remarkable.
