Sculpture - Child Pinched By A Crayfish , Jean - Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785) - Bronze

Bronze proof showing a child sitting on a shell , having just been pinched by a crayfish .
Bronze with a double brown and gold patina . 
Signature of the sculptor "JB.PIGALLE" , on the back of the sculpture . 
Bronze of old edition , period second part of the XIX th century . 
Very good condition and patina .

Sizes : 42 cm x 38 cm

Jean - Baptiste Pigalle (1714-1785)

Great French sculptor , Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was born in Paris in 1714 .

He worked on his art , under the guidance of Robert Le Lorrain and then Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne .
Convinced that his art is the meaning of his life , he went to Italy in 1734 to perfect his technique .
On his return, he begins his "Mercury attaching his heels", which will allow him to integrate "The Beaux-Arts" .
His reputation swells in the heart of the Parisian aristocracy .
 "Madame de Pompadour" takes him under his wing at the same time as the orders flow .
Juggling between the Baroque and the Classical , he produced the portraits of "Diderot" , "Voltaire" and then produced the famous funeral monuments intended for the "Marshal of Saxe" (Strasbourg, completed in 1776) .

He died in Paris in 1785 , leaving in his wake remarkable works .