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Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (26 January 1714 – 20 August 1785[1]) was a French sculptor.
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle | |
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 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, by Marie-Suzanne Roslin | |
| Born | 26 January 1714 |
| Died | 20 August 1785 Paris |
| Nationality | French |
| Known for | Sculpture |
| Movement | Baroque, Neo-classicism |
Life
Pigalle was born in Paris, the seventh child of a carpenter. Although he failed to obtain the Prix de Rome, after a severe struggle he entered the Académie Royale and became one of the most popular sculptors of his day. His earlier work, such as Child with Cage (model at Sèvres) and Mercury Fastening his Sandals (Berlin, and lead cast in Louvre), is less commonplace than that of his more mature years, but his nude statue of Voltaire, dated 1776 (initially in the Institut de France, purchased by the Louvre in 1962), and his tombs of Comte d'Harcourt (c. 1764) (Notre Dame de Paris) and of Marshal Saxe, completed in 1777 (Saint-Thomas Lutheran church, Strasbourg), are good examples of French sculpture in the 18th century.
Pigalle taught the sculptor Louis-Philippe Mouchy, who married his niece, and who closely copied Pigalle's style.[2][3] He is also said to have taught the painter Madeleine-Élisabeth Pigalle, believed to be a distant relative from Sens.[4] His name is most commonly known today because of the Pigalle red-light district in Paris, located around the square of the same name.
Pigalle died in Paris on 20 August 1785.
Monumental works
Mercury putting on his running shoes (Louvre) (1753)
Chapel of the Virgin, Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris
Voltaire nude (The Louvre, 1777)
Tomb of Maurice de Saxe, Saint Thomas Lutheran Church, Strasbourg (1777)
Busts
Portrait of Voltaire (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Madame de Pompadour, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1748–51)
Self-portrait (1770s, (Louvre)
References
- Barton, Eleanor Dodge Barton (1976). "Pigalle, Jean Baptiste". In William D. Halsey (ed.). Collier's Encyclopedia. Vol. 19. New York: Macmillan Educational Corporation. p. 43.
- Goodman, John (1995). Diderot on Art: The salon of 1767. Yale University Press. p. 312. ISBN 978-0-300-06252-6. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
- Levey, Michael (1993). Painting and Sculpture in France, 1700–1789. Yale University Press. p. 250. ISBN 978-0-300-06494-0. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
- Profile of Madeleine-Élisabeth Pigalle at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.
- Attribution
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pigalle, Jean Baptiste". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press.
External links
Media related to Jean-Baptiste Pigalle at Wikimedia Commons- Virtual Gallery
- Jean-Baptiste Pigalle in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website
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Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (* 26. Januar 1714 in Paris; † 20. August 1785 ebenda)[1] war ein französischer Bildhauer.- [en] Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
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