Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
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Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (26 January 1714 – 20 August 1785neo-classical trends.
Life
Pigalle was born in
Académie Royale
and became one of the most popular sculptors of his day.
His earlier work, such as Child with Cage (model at Marshal Saxe, completed in 1777 (Saint-Thomas Lutheran church, Strasbourg), are good examples of French sculpture in the 18th century.[2]
Pigalle taught the sculptor Louis-Philippe Mouchy, who married his niece, and who closely copied Pigalle's style.[3][4] He is also said to have taught the painter Madeleine-Élisabeth Pigalle, believed to be a distant relative from Sens.[5] 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
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Mercury putting on his running shoes (Louvre) (1753)
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Chapel of the Virgin,Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris
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Voltaire nude (The Louvre, 1777)
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Funerary monument of Maurice de Saxe in Saint Thomas Church, Strasbourg
Busts
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Portrait of Voltaire (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
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Madame de Pompadour, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1748–51)
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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.
- ^ public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Pigalle, Jean Baptiste". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 21 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 595. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ISBN 978-0-300-06252-6. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
- ISBN 978-0-300-06494-0. Retrieved 2014-07-01.
- ^ Profile of Madeleine-Élisabeth Pigalle at the Dictionary of Pastellists Before 1800.
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