Background
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was born in Paris on January 26, 1714. He was the seventh child of a carpenter.
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Jean Baptiste Pigalle
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From 1736 until 1739 Jean-Baptiste Pigalle studied independently in Rome.
Pigalle was made a member of the Academy in 1744.
Career
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle began his artistic studies with Robert Le Lorrain and J. B. Lemoyne.
His earlier work, such as " Child with Cage " (model at Sevres) and " Mercury Fastening his Sandals " (Berlin, and lead cast in Louvre), is less commonplace than that of his maturer years, but his nude statue of Voltaire, dated 1776 (Institut), and his tombs of Comte d'Harcourt (c. 1764) (Notre Dame) and of Marshal Saxe, completed in 1777 (Lutheran church, Strassburg), are good specimens of French sculpture in the 18th century.
See P. Tarbd, Vie et ceuv.
de Pigalle (1859).
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