Pierre de l'Estache (,

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- 28 November 1774, Rome) was a French sculptor. He produced a copy of the

Kallipygian Venus The ''Venus Callipyge'', also known as the ''Aphrodite Kallipygos'' ( el, Ἀφροδίτη Καλλίπυγος) or the ''Callipygian Venus'', all literally meaning "Venus (or Aphrodite) of the beautiful buttocks", is an Ancient Roman marble stat ...

in Rome in 1722-23, for Augustus the Strong's ''Grosser Garten'' in Dresden (this copy was destroyed with the gardens in 1945). 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)

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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) {{DEFAULTSORT:Estache, Pierre De L 1680s births 1774 deaths Artists from Paris 18th-century French sculptors French male sculptors 18th-century French male artists