Pierre de L'Estache
Pierre de L'Estache , also Pierre Lestache (* around 1688 in Paris , † November 28, 1774 in Rome ) was a French sculptor .
Life
L'Estache went to Rome in 1715 at the instigation of Duke Pardaillan de Gondrin as a scholarship holder of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture . With the exception of a brief stay in Paris from September 1721 to April 1722, he spent the rest of his life in Rome. In 1722 he created a copy of Aphrodite Kallipygos , which stood in the Great Garden of August the Strong in Dresden and was destroyed at the end of the war in 1945.
L'Estache married in 1733. Until 1733 he studied at the Académie de France à Rome . In the same year he made a relief of St. Andrea Corsini for the Corsini Chapel in San Giovanni in Laterano . From 1737 to 1738 he was director of the Académie de France à Rome.
Melchior de Polignac introduced him to the Congregation of San Luigi dei Francesi in 1725 . On their behalf, L'Estache made the bust of Cardinal Henri Albert de La Grange d'Arquien for the sacristy , the tomb of Charles-François Poërson and various marble sculptures in the choir . L'Estache created a bust similar to that of the cardinal in 1740. It is in the Musée Jacquemart-André in Paris and is the only work of his in France.
From 1740, L'Estache lived in a palace by the church of San Luigi dei Francesi. In 1746 he created the statues of Charlemagne , Louis IX. , Chrodechild and Jeanne de Valois on the facade of the church. The four travertine statues are considered mediocre and not his best works, according to Lavalle. When L'Estache died in old age in 1774, he was practically forgotten.
L'Estache had a daughter Therèse, who had been married to the architect and painter Charles-Louis Clérisseau since December 1, 1763 .
literature
- Lestache, Pierre . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 130-131 .
- Germaid Ruck: Lestache, Pierre . In: General Artist Lexicon . The visual artists of all times and peoples (AKL). Volume 84, de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-023189-2 , p. 223.
- Anne-Lise Desmas: Pierre de L'Estache (1688 ca.1774 ). Un sculpteur français à Rome entre institutions nationales et grands chantiers pontificaux. In: Studiolo. 1, 2002, pp. 105–148 ( supplement with catalog raisonné ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Andreas Corsini heals a blind man in the picture index of art and architecture .
- ↑ Denis Lavalle: Une décoration à Rome, au milieu du XVIIIe siècle: le chœur de l'église Saint-Louis-des-Français . In: École Française de Rome (ed.): Les Fondations nationales dans la Rome Pontificale. Actes du colloque de Rome (16-19 May 1978) . No. 52 . Rome 1981, p. 250 f., 276-280, 314-318 (French, persee.fr ).
- ^ Friedrich Noack : Clérisseau, Charles Louis . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 23 : Leitenstorfer – Mander . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1929, p. 91-92 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Estache, Pierre de L ' |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lestache, Pierre |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French sculptor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1688 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 28, 1774 |
| Place of death | Rome |