Jacques Saly

Jens Juel : Jacques Saly (1772)

Equestrian statue of Friederich V in Copenhagen

Jacques Saly , also Jacques François Joseph Saly (born June 20, 1717 in Valenciennes , † May 4, 1776 in Paris ) was a French sculptor.

Life

Jacques Saly received his first training as a child from Antoine Gilles in Valenciennes. In 1732 he was sent to the then leading sculptor Guillaume Coustou in Paris and at the same time attended the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture . Due to the prizes he won during his studies, including the Prix ​​de Rome , he qualified for a scholarship at the Académie de France à Rome . From 1740 to 1748 Saly lived and worked in the Academy in Rome . In 1749 he returned home. A marble monument of King Louis XV from 1752 . for Valenciennes (destroyed in the Revolution in 1792 ) established his international reputation as well as work for Madame de Pompadour and he was called to Copenhagen to create the equestrian statue of King Frederick V of Denmark for the Amalienborg Palace Square , which is certainly his main work . It is part of the Danish cultural canon . The economic client was the Danish East India Company under Adam Gottlob von Moltke , which gave the statue of Friedrich V as a gift. The choice of Saly, however, was a government decision in absolute Denmark, which was made with the help of the diplomat Joachim Wasserschlebe, who worked at the French court in Paris . Saly started work in Copenhagen in 1753.

In 1754 Frederick V reorganized what would later become the Royal Danish Academy of Art . Saly became a professor at the Academy and presented himself as the successor to the President of the Academy Nicolai Eigtved . He died in the same year, Saly was his successor and headed the academy until 1771. After his recall in the Struensee era , he stayed in Copenhagen until 1774 and then returned to Paris.

literature

• Saly, (also Sailly) Jacques François Joseph . In: Georg Kaspar Nagler (eds.): New general artist Lexicon: or messages from the life and works of the painter, sculptor, architect, engraver, etc . tape 14 : Rubens, A. – Santi, Rafael . EA Fleischmann, Munich 1845, p. 232-233 ( books.google.de ).
• Philip Weilbach : Saly, Jacques Francis Joseph . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 14 : Resen – Saxtrup . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1900, p. 581-582 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
• Georg Nordensvan : Saly, Jacques François Joseph . In: Theodor Westrin, Ruben Gustafsson Berg (eds.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 24 : Ryssläder secretary . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1916, Sp. 548 (Swedish, runeberg.org - with illustration).
• P. Johansen: Saly, Jacques François Joseph . In: Christian Blangstrup (Ed.): Salmonsens Konversationsleksikon . 2nd Edition. tape 20 : Renden – Schinkel . JH Schultz Forlag, Copenhagen 1926, p. 865 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
• Arist Pander: Saly, Jacques François Joseph . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 29 : Rosa – Scheffauer . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1935, p. 369-370 .

Web links

Commons : Jacques Saly  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jacques François Joseph Saly. In: Kunstindeks Danmark / Weilbachs Kunstnerleksikon (Danish).