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Joseph Jaquet, sometimes written Joseph Jacquet, (30 January 1822 - 9 June 1898) was a
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Boston Public Library Joseph Jaquet exhibited a marble bust, three plaster busts, a ''Moses Saved from the Waters'' and a ''Meditating Saint Paul'' which brought him notoriety. His contribution for the 1845 Salon was more important and especially a model for a bronze statue of
Officer of the Order of Leopold
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Joseph Jaquet, sometimes written Joseph Jacquet, (30 January 1822 - 9 June 1898) was a Belgian
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sculptor.
Biography
Joseph Jaquet, born in Antwerp in Belgium, was the son of a baker. He studied withGuillaume Geefs
Guillaume Geefs (10 September 1805 – 19 January 1883), also Willem Geefs, was a Belgian sculptor. Although known primarily for his monumental works and public portraits of statesmen and nationalist figures, he also explored mythological su ...
at the Brussels
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Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts
The Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels (french: Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts - École supérieure des Arts de la Ville de Bruxelles (ARBA-ESA), nl, Koninklijke Academie voor Schone Kunsten van Brussel), is an art school established in B ...
and was the friend of Peter Ludwig Kühnen (1812–1877), a painter originating from Aachen, specialised in painting romantic landscapes.
He called from Antwerp to Brussels his brother Jacques (1830 - 1898) who assisted him throughout his lifetime.
Jacques actively took part in sculpture by his own productions for the Brussels art salons of 1843, 1854, 1860, 1866, 1872 and 1873.Jacques Jaquet was the author of the bronze monument dedicated to Antoine Wiertz
Antoine Joseph Wiertz (22 February 1806 – 18 June 1865) was a Belgian painter, sculptor, lithographer and art writer. He is known for his religious, historical, and allegorical works and portraits. He was an eccentric figure who originally was ...
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Ixelles
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For the 1842 Brussels Art Salon, Charles Robin (1842Revue du Salon 1842
Boston Public Library Joseph Jaquet exhibited a marble bust, three plaster busts, a ''Moses Saved from the Waters'' and a ''Meditating Saint Paul'' which brought him notoriety. His contribution for the 1845 Salon was more important and especially a model for a bronze statue of
Froissart
Jean Froissart ( Old and Middle French: '' Jehan'', – ) (also John Froissart) was a French-speaking medieval author and court historian from the Low Countries who wrote several works, including ''Chronicles'' and ''Meliador'', a long Arthuria ...
for Chimay but he acquired a definitive notoriety in 1854 with ''The Golden Age''.
At that time, he lived in Goffard street then he moved for Charles Quint street.
In 1864, he secured his first commission in Amsterdam
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: ''The Victory'' for the Paleis voor Volksvlijt
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, then a second commission for the decoration of the national monument in The Hague
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Willemspark.
The equestrian statue of Baldwin I of Constantinople
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was created in 1868 in Mons, then the pediment and lions on the Brussels Stock Exchange in 1872.
In 1879, Joseph Jaquet designed a statue of Louise of Orléans
Louise-Marie Thérèse Charlotte Isabelle of Orléans (3 April 1812 – 11 October 1850) was the first queen of the Belgians as the second wife of King Leopold I from their marriage on 9 August 1832 until her death in 1850. She was the sec ...
, first Queen of the Belgians: this statue was on the ''Place d'Armes'' in Philippeville
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then was moved to the old ''École moyenne'', Namur street.
He was a professor at the Brussels Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts and a master of Charles Samuel.
He died in 1898 in Schaerbeek
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in the Brussels-Capital Region
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.A street bears his name in Schaerbeek (in French: Rue Joseph Jacquet, in Dutch
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: Joseph Jacquetstraat): this street goes from François-Joseph Navez
François-Joseph Navez (16 November 1787 – 12 October 1869) was a Belgian neo-classical painter.
Biography
Navez was born in Charleroi. He was a pupil of Jacques-Louis David. He spent five years in Italy between 1817 and 1822. Between 1835 ...
street to George Stephenson
George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians
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street.
Honours
* Officer of the Order of Leopold
* Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown
The Order of the Oak Crown (french: Ordre de la Couronne de chêne, german: Eichenlaubkronenorden, lb, Eechelaafkrounenuerden) is an order of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.
History
The Order of the Oak Crown was established in 1841 by Gran ...
* Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium
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References
1822 births 1898 deaths 19th-century Belgian sculptors 19th-century Belgian male artists Artists from Antwerp Members of the Royal Academy of Belgium {{Belgium-sculptor-stub