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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ve. (Mdm. in£d., t. ii., p. 76.)As well as one can see, it is a rather commonplace work, the sort of thing a capablewell-trained workman does to order. A plaster model was exhibited in 1745 and themarble in 1748. 3 The plaster model was exhibited in 1745, the marble in 1753. 4 Tarb6, p. 232. 5 We learn from M. Tarbe (pp. 232, 233) that IEnfant a lOiseau and the onlybronze reproduction of IEnfant a la Cage, which had been retouched by Pigalle,were in the possession of his great-niece, Mme. Devismes, in 1859. 6 The head differs from that of the statuette in the Louvre. Paris-Monmartelpaid Pigalle 2,400 It., and at his sale Pigalle bought it back for 7,200 It. Eloge dePigalle; Mopinot, p. 13; and Tarb£, p. 52. The model made for Sevres is stillpreserved there. 7 The indefatigable energy of M. de Nolhac has secured for Versailles a statuetteof a sleeping child, executed by Pigalle in his later years, and given by the town ofParis to Mesdames de France. Chron. des Arts, 26 Feb., 1898. 84
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LEnfant a la Cage. By Jean-Baptiste Pigalle.(Musee du Louvre.) Bellevue and at Crecy, probably at the suggestion of her architect, Jean-dlsle, of whom Pigalle exhibited a bust at the Salon of 1750.1 His pgjjjj6work at Crecy, like that at Lyons, seems to have disappeared, butamongst the statues executed for the decoration of the gardens ofBellevue, two at least can be traced. II ny a plus que de1Amitie entre le Roi et elle, writes the marquis dArgenson in1753, aussi se fait elle faire pour Bellevue une statue oil elle estrepresentee en Deesse de 1Amitie ; this seems to be the statuereferred to in the story told by the Duke de Luynes of the Queensvisit to the gardens on May 8th, 1758. Her attention was thendirected to it by the gardener with the words : Cetoit ici lebosquet de lAmour, presentement cest celui de 1Amitie.2 Thestatue, which bears the inscription Pigalle fecit 1753, now standsin the Park of Bagatelle, but another of the King, which was placedin the principal alley of Bellev

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