Jean-Baptiste Pigalle

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French sculptor Neoclassical artist Rococo artist human sculptor

Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was an 18th-century French sculptor renowned for his expressive Rococo and early Neoclassical works, including notable public monuments and church sculptures in Paris.

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	French sculptor → Neoclassical artist → Rococo artist → human → sculptor →
activeInCentury	18th century →
artisticStyle	combination of Rococo and early Neoclassical elements → expressive modeling →
countryOfCitizenship	France →
dateOfBirth	1714-01-26 →
dateOfDeath	1785-08-20 →
employer	French royal court →
familyName	Pigalle →
fieldOfWork	sculpture →
gender	male →
genre	funerary sculpture → public monument → religious sculpture →
givenName	Jean-Baptiste →
hasWorkInCollection	Louvre Museum → Musée du Louvre Department of Sculptures → Musée du Louvre, Paris →
influenced	French Neoclassical sculpture →
influencedBy	Edmé Bouchardon →
memberOf	Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture →
movement	Neoclassicism → Rococo →
nativeLanguage	French →
notableFor	church sculptures in Paris → expressive Rococo sculpture → public monuments in Paris → transition toward Neoclassical style →
notableStudent	Louis-Philippe Mouchy NERFINISHED →
notableWork	Allegorical figures for the church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris → Child with Cage → Mercury Attaching his Talaria → Mercury Fastening his Sandals → Monument to Maurice de Saxe in Saint-Thomas Church, Strasbourg → Nude Voltaire → Sculptures for the church of Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois, Paris → Sculptures for the church of Saint-Roch, Paris → Statue of Voltaire → Tomb of Marshal de Saxe →
occupation	sculptor →
placeOfBirth	Kingdom of France → Paris →
placeOfDeath	Paris →
workLocation	Paris → Versailles →

Referenced by (2)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture →	hadMember
Madame de Pompadour →	supported