Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
(1714–1785) fransk skulptör
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (France, 1714–1785) is listed in the catalogue as a sculptor. By year of birth, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle belongs to the chapter ‘Rococo’ in this site’s history of art.
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was born in Rueil-Malmaison and died in Paris. Jean-Baptiste Pigalle worked in Paris. Wikidata associates Jean-Baptiste Pigalle with Baroque and Neoclassicism. Jean-Baptiste Pigalle became a member of Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, Académie des sciences, belles-lettres et arts de Rouen, and Accademia delle Arti del Disegno. Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was awarded Knight of the Order of Saint Michael. The students included Nicolas-François Dupré, Jean Guillaume Moitte, and Louis-Philippe Mouchy.
The best-known works include ‘Voltaire Naked’ and ‘Mercury’. The catalogue has one work by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle with a free image. The dated work is from 1776. Institut de France holds at least one work by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Neoclassicism’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Anna Rosina de Gasc, James Stuart, Kang Se-hwang, Domenico Maggiotto, and Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre.