Marie-Anne Collot

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Portrait of Marie-Anne Collot. Painting by Pierre-Étienne Falconet (1741–1791) from 1773.
Model of the head of Peter the Great for the "bronze rider" (plaster, around 1773)
The bronze rider by Étienne-Maurice Falconet with the head created by Marie-Anne Collot

Marie Anne Collot (* 1748 in Paris ; † February 24, 1821 in Nancy ) was a French sculptor.

Life

Not much is known about Marie-Anne Collot's origins and childhood. Denis Diderot stated in 1769 that he found out that Marie Anne Collot was an orphan . In 1763, at the age of 15, Collot became a student of the famous sculptor Étienne-Maurice Falconet , who was at the height of his career at the age of 47.

At the age of 17 she had already created a series of busts in his studio on Rue d'Anjou in Paris, which contemporaries admired.

In 1766 she accompanied her master to Saint Petersburg to carry out an order from Tsarina Catherine II for a larger-than-life statue of Peter the Great, the " bronze rider ". Collot took out the head of the statue.

On July 27, 1777, while still in Russia, she married Falconet's son, who had traveled from England, the painter Pierre-Étienne Falconet (1741–1791). But he was calculating enough to secure Marie Anne Collot's fees and generous dowries. The marriage was unhappy because of Falconet's continued brutality and infidelity.

In 1778 Marie Anne Collot returned to Paris with her daughter. Then in 1779 she filed a lawsuit against her husband, whom she accused of beating, betraying, and cheating with another woman. They split up.

Étienne Falconet returned to Paris from The Hague , La Haye in 1781 and stood by his daughter-in-law against the violent son. He fell ill and was cared for by Marie Anne Collot until his death in 1791.

Because of her daughter's marriage, Collot moved to Nancy, where she died in 1821.

Works

Dellac names 28 works by Marie Anne Collot in her catalog raisonné, but most of them have been lost. Some of her sculptures, u. a. the bust of Diderot, are in the Hermitage Museum , Saint Petersburg, and in the Louvre , Paris and the Nancy Museum. In the museum of Nancy there is a self-portrait that has long been mistaken for a bust of the young Tsarina Catherine.

literature

  • A. Valabreque: Madame Falconet . Paris 1898.
  • Christiane Dellac: Marie-Anna Collot . Paris 2005.

Web links

Commons : Marie-Anne Collot  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ JocondePortail des collections des musées de France. Biographical data about Marie-Anne Collot; in French
  2. ^ Christiane Dellac; Marie-Anne Collot: Une sculptrice française à la cour de Catherine II, 1748-1821. L'Harmattan, 2005 ISBN 2-7475-8833-5 .
  3. ^ Pascale Debert: Trois chefs-d'œuvre de Marie-Anne Collot au musée des Beaux-Arts de Nancy. May 17, 2017, accessed on March 13, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Collot, Marie-Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collot, Marie Anne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French sculptress
DATE OF BIRTH 1748
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 24, 1821
Place of death Nancy