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1788 In Art
Events from the year 1788 in art. Events * Étienne Maurice Falconet becomes director of the Académie des beaux-arts. Works * Thomas Barrett – Charlotte Medal * James Barry – '' King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body of Cordelia'' (1786–88) * Jacques-Louis David – ''Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife'' * Marguerite Gérard – '' First Steps'' (approximate date) * Francisco Goya ** '' Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga'' ("Red Boy", 1787–88) ** ''The Meadow of San Isidro'' ** ''St. Francis of Borja Attending a Dying Man'' * Anton Graff – ''Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin'' * Guillaume Guillon-Lethière - ''Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death'' * Sir Joshua Reynolds ** ''The Age of Innocence'' (probable date) ** ''Lord Heathfield'' * Johann Zoffany – '' Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match'' Births * February 5 – Sarah Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures (died 1853) * February 24 – Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian landscape painter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Étienne Maurice Falconet
Étienne Maurice Falconet (1 December 1716 – 24 January 1791) was a French baroque, rococo and Neoclassical sculpture, neoclassical sculptor, best-known for his equestrian statue of Peter the Great, the ''Bronze Horseman'' (1782), in St. Petersburg, Russia, and for the small statues he produced in series for the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, Royal Sévres Porcelain Manufactory Life Falconet was born to a poor family in Paris. He was at first apprenticed to a carpenter, but some of his clay figures, with the making of which he occupied his leisure hours, attracted the notice of the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, who made him his pupil. One of his most successful early sculptures was of Milo of Croton, which secured his admission to the membership of the Académie des beaux-arts in 1754. He came to prominent public attention in the Paris Salon, Salons of 1755 and 1757 with his marbles of ''L'Amour'' and the ''Nymphe descendant au bain'' (also called ''The Bather''), which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
