Jean Joseph Vinache

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Jean Joseph Vinache (* 1696 in Paris ; † December 1, 1754 there ) was a French sculptor .

Life

The Golden Rider on the Neustädter Markt in Dresden

Vinache studied in 1708 at the Paris Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture with the important French sculptor Antoine Coysevox . Through his art agents, the Elector Friedrich August I of Saxony and King August II of Poland (August the Strong) ordered Jean-Joseph Vinache to be brought to the royal seat of Dresden in 1719 . He should realize the dream of the king, an unprecedented equestrian statue . Vinache succeeded in portraying August the Strong on a rising horse with a regent's staff in armor as a Roman legionnaire and general. This model, made around 1717 to 1730, initially made of plaster and later of bronze by the Dresden art and cannon founder Johann Gottfried Weinhold , is in the fund of the Dresden State Art Collections . Based on this model, the Golden Rider was created on Dresden's Neustädter Markt , which was ceremonially unveiled and consecrated on November 26, 1736.

In the meantime he had participated in the sculptural decoration of the palace in the Great Garden and its park. He also completed works by his late friend François Coudray for the park of the Palais in the Great Garden. Vinache was less and less comfortable with the Dresden Elbe climate, so that he returned to Paris around 1736. There he became a member of the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture and worked from then on in a studio in the Louvre around 1741 . A large number of works of art for Paris and the surrounding area were created here. He created the figure of Hercules in marble , bound by Cupid for the Louvre, and the marble figure of the Angel of Religion for the Paris Church of Saint-Paul-Saint-Louis , crushing heresy . He also created a bronze relief Death of St. Therese for the Palace Chapel in Versailles and the marble figure Menars for the park of Versailles Palace . He died in Paris in 1754 at the age of 58.

family

Vinache was the son of the French sculptor and bronze caster Joseph Vinache, who on March 29, 1685, at the age of 33, married the 19-year-old Margueritte (née Émery). Page mother was the daughter of François Émery and his wife Françoise Houdon. He himself married Claude-Barbe (nee Vitry) on June 11, 1740, the daughter of the master carpenter Robert Vitry. The couple had several children including:

  • A son Joseph-Guillaume Vinache, who became a designer and married 18-year-old Ursule-Margueritte (née Pichon) on February 20, 1770 at the age of 27, a daughter of Claude Pichon.
  • A daughter, Geneviève Marguerite, who married the architect François-Nicolas Lancret (1717–1789) on September 11, 1756.

Works (selection)

literature

Web links

Commons : Jean Joseph Vinache  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Henri Herluison (ed.): Actes d'état-civil d'artistes français, peintres, graveurs, architectes, etc. J. Baur, Paris 1873, p 451–452 ( Text Archive - Internet Archive ).
personal data
SURNAME Vinache, Jean Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vinache, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH 1696
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 1754
Place of death Paris