Works by this Artist
Denis DiderotJean-Baptiste Pigalle, 1777
Studies
with Robert Le Lorrain (before 1735); with Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (1735); Académie Royale (1735)
Career
1741 - Académie Royale junior member (agréé)
1744 - Académie Royale full member based on acceptance of Mercury
Travels
Rome (1736-39)
Commissions from
Marquise de Pompadour; Bâtiments du Roi (state)
Important Artworks
Mercury, 1744 (Louvre, Paris)
Marechal de Saxe Funerary Monument, 1756 (St Thomas church, Strasbourg)
Nude Voltaire, 1776 (Louvre
Readings
Réau, Louis. J.-B. Pigalle. Paris: Editions Pierre Tisné, 1950 (in French)
West, Alison. From Pigalle to Preault: Neoclassicism and the Sublime in French Sculpture, 1760-1840. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998
Images
This is the street in the 9th arrondisement of Paris where Pigalle lived in the 18th century. It was named after him later.