Beyoncé now has her wax double at the Grévin Museum

The larger-than-life sculpture, which visitors to the Parisian museum have been able to admire since Thursday, took six months to complete.

Visitors have been asking for her for a long time, and their wishes have been granted: Beyoncé Knowles-Carter made her entrance on Thursday, July 4, 2024 at the Musée Grévin. Because surprisingly, the American singer, the most awarded female artist in history with 28 Grammy Awards, did not until now have a character in her image at the wax museum.After a huge success for the music video of Apeshit Filmed in Paris in the heart of the Louvre Museum, Beyoncé’s character will never leave the capital again“, the Parisian establishment is pleased to say.

Dressed in a golden bodysuit and sitting cross-legged on a hoop, the realistic sculpture of Queen B. took six months of work by the team at the Grévin Museum’s creative workshops and sculptor Claus Velte.

While celebrities often come to pose in the flesh, the difficulty this time was having to work only from photos. Because in fact, “each photo can present a different colorimetry, facial volumes too, smile, no smile, head raised or lowered”, specifies the museum’s press release.

The other challenge was to “find a pose“for the young woman, then to build a structure supporting the hoop on which she is sitting, explains Claus Velte in the video posted online by the museum.

But the artist Claus Velte has seen others, since he has worked for Grévin for thirty years and has some 150 sculptures from the museum to his credit, from Céline Dion to Omar Sy and Carla Bruni.

The inanimate clone of the singer of Crazy In Love thus joins the recent figures that the establishment of the Grands Boulevards has, such as the footballer Antoine Griezmann, the actress Audrey Fleurot, the musician Matthieu Chedid or Queen Marie-Antoinette, dressed by the great couturier Julien Fournié.

Beyoncé will now be able to be admired by the 900,000 annual visitors to Grévin, which is already facing some criticism for the supposedly excessive “whiteness” of this wax double… which is not without recalling the controversy of The Rock last October. The actor of Fast and FuriousDwayne Johnson by his real name, had requested and obtained touch-ups on his statue, which was much too light for his taste.

For the moment, Queen B. has not reacted. And the museum immediately extinguished the beginning of the controversy by showing that depending on the angle of the photo, the color can change.