BRONZE SCULPTURE, "ENFANT PINCE PAR UNE ECREVISSE", AFTER JEAN-BAPTISTE PIGALLE, 19TH CENTURY

Bronze with a greenish brown patina, signed Pigalle on the base, representing a child surprised by the pinching of a crayfish. Tears are running down the cheeks of the naked child, sitting on a large shell, as he has just been pinched by a crayfish. The sculpture rests on a green base made of Marble. Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was a great French sculptor born in Paris in 1714. At a very young age, he studied sculpture and became aware that his art was the meaning of his life. He decided to go to Italy in 1734 to perfect his technique. He then joined the Beaux-Arts, thanks to his work "Mercure attachant sa talonnière" (1740) which was an immediate success. Several artists owned a copy, painters represented it on their canvases, and a reduction in Bisquewas produced by the Sèvres factory in 1770. Very quickly, orders multiplied and Mme de Pompadour took him under her wing. Juggling between the baroque and the classical, he made portraits of Diderot and Voltaire and then produced the famous funeral monuments for the Maréchal de Saxe (Strasbourg, 1776). He died in Paris in 1785, leaving a remarkable body of work in his wake.

19th century

Circa: 1850

Dim: W:39cm, D:30cm, H:50cm.

Condition report Very good condition.