Edme Bouchardon

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Edme Bouchardon, painting by François-Hubert Drouais

Edme Bouchardon (traditionally written Edme , recently also Edmé several times without reference to sources ; * May 29, 1698 in Chaumont , † July 27, 1762 in Paris ) was a French draftsman, sculptor , medalist and architect . He was a pioneer of classicism .

Life

The son of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Bouchardon (1667–1742) began his training in his father's studio and was then a student of Guillaume Coustou the Elder. J. In 1722 he was awarded the Prix ​​de Rome, awarded by the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture , which was combined with a royal scholarship and several years of study in Rome. He spent ten years in Rome, where he made copies of ancient sculptures. After his return he was appointed court sculptor (1732), accepted into the academy (1744) and appointed professor there (1745).

Edme Bouchardon died in Paris in 1762 at the age of 64.

Awards and honors

  • 1722: Prix de Rome
  • 1732: Member of the Academy

plant

The fountain in Rue de Grenelle , commissioned by the city of Paris and completed in 1745, is considered Bouchardon's masterpiece. The work is representative of the transition from Rococo to academic classicism . In 1751, the city of Paris also entrusted him with the execution of the equestrian statue of Louis XV. The artist worked on it until the end of his life, but it was only completed after his death by his student Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785). The plant was overturned and melted down during the French Revolution in 1792.

The Musée du Louvre in Paris owns sculptures and drawings by Bouchardon. The Musée d'art et d'histoire in Chaumont, the artist's birthplace, also has drawings by his hand and documents on his life and work. A hall is dedicated to him there.

The Graphic Collection Albertina in Vienna owns drawings with antique architectural details that were attributed to Bouchardon by Hermann Egger (in his 1903 catalog of Roman studies of antiquity).

Edme Bouchardon: Genius of Abundance - an addition to an ancient torso, Rome 1731 ( Bode-Museum Berlin)
Edme Bouchardon: The fountain on Rue de Grenelle

Selection of works

  • 1726/1730: Faune endormi (Sleeping Faun), Paris, Musée du Louvre , Département des sculptures
  • ???: Portrait bust of Pope Clement XII.
  • ???: Portrait bust of the Cardinal of Rohan
  • ???: Portrait bust of Cardinal Melchior de Polignac , Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Sculptures
  • 1731: Genie de l'abondance (Genius of Abundance), marble , Rome
  • 1732: Portrait bust of Madame Vleughels, née Marie-Thérèse Glosset , Paris, Louvre
  • 1734/1750: 10 sculptures for St-Sulpice de Paris , including 1745: Jesus-Christ appuyé sur la Croix (Jesus-Christ, leaning on the cross), Paris
  • 1739/1745: Fontaine des quatre Saison (Fountain of the Four Seasons), Paris, 57/59 rue de Grenelle
  • 1747: portrait bust of Charles XII. of Sweden . There are several versions, including a bronze from 1749, Paris, Louvre
  • 1748/1762: Equestrian statue of Louis XV. , Bronze , formerly Paris, Place de la Concorde , melted down during the 1792 revolution. A small variant of this statue made by Bouchardon's pupil Louis-Claude Vassé is in Paris, Louvre.
  • 1750: L'amour se taillant un arc dans la massue d'Hercule (Armor carves an arch from the club of Hercules), Paris, Louvre
  • ???: Calvaire , Remiremont
  • ???: Sculptures for the water basins of the Palace Park in Versailles (Bassin de Neptune, among others)

student

Web links

Commons : Edmé Bouchardon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stefan Dürre: Seemann's Lexicon of Sculpture . EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-101-4 , pp. 66 .
personal data
SURNAME Bouchardon, Edme
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French draftsman, sculptor, medalist and architect
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1698
PLACE OF BIRTH Chaumont
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1762
Place of death Paris