Jean-Baptiste Pigalle

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Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, painting by Marie-Suzanne Roslin

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (born January 26, 1714 in Paris , † August 20, 1785 there ) was a French sculptor .

He was born in Paris as the seventh child of a carpenter and was one of the most popular sculptors of his time. He studied with Robert Le Lorrain and then with Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne . He did not win the first prize of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture , which would have enabled him to study free of charge in Rome, and in 1735 went to Italy Rome at his own expense , where he copied ancient statues .

Pigalle returned to Paris in 1741 and was admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on November 4th of this year with his Mercure statue . The marble version of the Mercure served him as morceau de réception on July 30, 1744 . When King Louis XV. of France ordered a marble version of this figure from Pigalle in 1746, Pigalle received his first prestigious commission. The French king gave this version of Pigalle's Mercury together with a statue of Venus as a pendant to Frederick II of Prussia . They were set up in the palace gardens of Sanssouci . Today there are copies there, the original marble pieces are kept in the Bode Museum in Berlin.

In 1766, Pigalle made a sculpture of Voltaire sitting naked on a tree stump. Frederick II had a copy made of this sculpture , which was placed in the Sanssouci vestibule .

The Parisian entertainment district Pigalle is named after Pigalle .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barton, Eleanor Dodge Barton: Pigalle, Jean Baptiste. In: William D. Halsey: Collier's Encyclopedia. Volume 19, Macmillan Educational Corporation, New York 1976, p. 43.
  2. ^ Eva Hausdorf: Monuments of the Enlightenment. The graves and monuments of Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785) between convention and renewal , Berlin 2012, p. 23.
  3. ↑ Hausdorf 2012, p. 24.
  4. ↑ Hausdorf 2012, p. 24 f.
  5. ↑ Prussian Allgemeine Zeitung 32/2010 of 14 August 2010
personal data
SURNAME Pigalle, Jean-Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1714
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH August 20, 1785
Place of death Paris