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Beaugrant, Guyot [Guiot] de
(b Lorraine, c. 1500; d Elvillar de Alava, nr Vitoria, 1549). South Netherlandish sculptor of Lorraine origin. Beaugrant was one of the first Renaissance sculptors in the southern Netherlands. He is frequently associated with Jean Mone of Metz. The two artists’ work exhibits considerable kinship, and the commissions that Beaugrant executed show that, like Mone, he enjoyed a high reputation. In 1526, while living in Mechelen, he carved, for St Jacob-op-de Coudenberg in Brussels, the marble mausoleum (destr. 1773) that had been commissioned by Margaret of Austria for her brother Francis, who had died young. The type and disposition of the mausoleum, known only from an 18th-century engraving, were wholly Late Gothic in character; the formal language in which the decorative details were executed was that of the Renaissance.
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