French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century (1900) (14578036318)

Identifier: frencharchitects00dilk (find matches)
Title: French architects and sculptors of the XVIIIth century
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Dilke, Emilia Francis Strong, Lady, 1840-1904
Subjects: Architects Sculpture, French Sculptors
Publisher: London, G. Bell and sons
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute



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sseau—who had been selected in place of Seguier—whilstClodion began the group of Turenne and Conde,5 Pigalle hadpassed away. Amongst his later works, one of the most noticeable is the 1 Lenoir, Musee des Monumens Francais, t. v., p. 161. A bust of GeorgeGougenot, seigneur de Croissy et de PIsle, etc., tuteur des princes de Condd (1674.1748), signed J. B. Pigalle F. 1748, was exhibited by the Baron de Soucy in1888. 2 Amongst these was Pigalles nephew by marriage, Louis-Philippe Mouchy, 1734-1801. R., 25 June, 1768, on Un Berger, No 769, Sculptures T. M. Louvre.He received a large share of Crown commissions from dAngiviller. See Guiffrey, Expositions du XVIII Siecle, pp. 114, 119, 134. 3 Memoire et lettre 1773. N. A., 1882, p. 252-260. 4 A pupil of Guillaume Coustou fils. 5 This group was cast in plaster on the spot, but the Revolution suspended thework. See Le Sculpteur Clodion, by J. J. Guiffrey, G. B. A., 1892, and Docu-ments nouveaux sur Clodion, Henri Lechat, G. B. A., 1894. 94
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Le Message dAmour. By Jean-Baptiste Pigalle.(Collection of M. Jacques Doucel) monument to Marshal dHarcourt, executed in 1776. It was saved Jean-by Lenoir from destruction, and is now in Notre Dame.1 It was f^le?no easy task to represent the dream of the widow to whom herhusband had appeared in the company of an angel, but Pigallehas thrown an expression of natural sympathy, which is human andlifelike, into the head of the angel; the figure of the lady standswell, the movement of her clasped hands is touching, the drapery,though full of thin folds, is well cast, and the great simplicity oftreatment and beauty of modelling of the nude are also noticeable.The Virgin and Child, executed for St. Sulpice, is still in theChapelle de la Vierge,2 but St. Augustin, formerly in the Conventof the Augustins, has been replaced by a plaster figure modelled, byDuseigneur, when the church was (in 1802) restored to public worshipas Notre Dame des Victoires. 3 As for the numerous statuettes,produced by