Biography of Jean Baptiste Pigalle
Pigalle, Jean Baptiste (01/26/1714 – 21/08/1785), French sculptor. He studied (since 1722) by Robert Le Lorrain and J. B. Lemoine. Visited Italy (1736-39). Working in a style transition from Rococo to Classicism, performed a number of statues and groups of mythological and allegorical themes ("Mercury, knotted sandal", "Boy with a cage, marble, 1749, Louvre, Paris). Features gifts Pigalle, combining civilian pathos with propensity to acute, sometimes naturalistic veracity, most clearly manifested in the gravestones and monuments (tomb of Marshal Maurice of Saxony, marble, 1753-76, Church of St. Thomas, Strasbourg), the statue of Voltaire, presented "heroic nude "(1776, marble, Bk Franz. Inst, Paris), acute on characteristics portraits (busts collector TE Defrisha and his Negro servant Fields, terracotta, ca. 1760, Museum of Fine Art in, Orleans) . Among the pupils Pigalle – Jean A. Houdon and FI Shubin. Lit.: Reau L., Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, P., 1950.