Pierre de l'Estache
French sculptor
Pierre de l'Estache (c. 1688, Paris - 28 November 1774, Rome) was a French sculptor.
He produced a copy of the Kallipygian Venus in Rome in 1722-23, for Augustus the Strong's Grosser Garten in Dresden (this copy was destroyed with the gardens in 1945).[1] He was president of the French Academy in Rome in 1737-1738. His son Charles de L'Estache was also a sculptor (?-14 March 1811)
References
- ^ "l'Estache". www.lestache.com. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-11-23.
Bibliography
- (in French) Anne-Lise Desmas, Pierre de L'Estache (1688 ca. - 1774) : un sculpteur français à Rome entre institutions nationales et grands chantiers pontificaux, in Studiolo, 1, 2002 (includes a catalogue of his work, biography, reception and bibliography)
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Directors of the French Academy in Rome
- Charles Errard (1666)
- Noël Coypel (1673)
- Charles Errard (1675)
- Matthieu de La Teulière (1684)
- René-Antoine Houasse (1699)
- Charles-François Poerson (1704)
- Nicolas Vleughels (1725)
- Pierre de l’Estache (1737)
- Jean François de Troy (1738)
- Charles-Joseph Natoire (1751)
- Noël Hallé (1775)
- Joseph-Marie Vien (1775)
- Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (1781)
- François-Guillaume Ménageot (1787)
- Joseph-Benoît Suvée (1792)
- Pierre-Adrien Pâris (1807)
- Guillaume Guillon-Lethière (1807)
- Charles Thévenin (1816)
- Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1823)
- Horace Vernet (1829)
- Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1835)
- Jean-Victor Schnetz (1841)
- Jean Alaux (1847)
- Jean-Victor Schnetz (1853)
- Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1866)
- Ernest Hébert (1867)
- Jules Eugène Lenepveu (1873)
- Louis-Nicolas Cabat (1879)
- Ernest Hébert (1885)
- Eugène Guillaume (1891)
- Carolus-Duran (1905)
- Paul-Albert Besnard (1913)
- Denys Puech (1921)
- Paul-Maximilien Landowski (1933)
- Jacques Ibert (1937)
- Balthus (1961)
- Jean Leymarie (1977)
- Jean-Marie Drot (1985)
- Pierre-Jean Angremy (1994)
- Bruno Racine (1997)
- Richard Peduzzi (2002)
- Frédéric Mitterrand (2008)
- Éric de Chassey (2009)