Jean Racine

In 1783, after producing a marble bust of Racine for the Comedie Francaise, Boizot asked the Comte d'Angiviller, Director General of the King's Buildings under Louis XVI, to commission this statue. The titles of Racine's best-known plays are inscribed in the book that lies at his feet: Alexander the Great, Andromache, The Litigants, Britannicus, Berenice, Bajazet, Mithridates, Iphigenia, Esther, Phaedra.1783年，布瓦佐为法兰西喜剧院（Comédie-Française）完成拉辛的大理石胸像创作后，向时任路易十六时期国王建筑事务总监的昂吉维耶伯爵提出委托制作这座拉辛雕像的申请。拉辛最知名的剧作标题被镌刻在雕像脚边的书籍之上：《亚历山大》《安德洛玛刻》《诉讼者》《布里塔尼居斯》《贝蕾妮丝》《巴雅泽》《米特里达梯》《伊菲革涅亚》《以斯帖》《淮德拉》。