Pierre de l’Estache

Pierre de L' Estache, also Pierre Lestache (* around 1688 in Paris, † November 28, 1774 in Rome) was a French sculptor.

Life

L' Estache went in 1715 at the instigation of the Duke de Pardaillan Gondrin as a fellow of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Rome. Except for a short stay in Paris from September 1721 to April 1722, he spent the rest of his life in Rome. In 1722 he created a copy of the Aphrodite Kallipygos that stood in the Great Garden of Augustus the Strong in Dresden and was destroyed in the war of 1945.

L' Estache married 1733. By 1733 he studied at the Académie de France à Rome. In the same year he made a relief of St. Andrea Corsini for the Corsini chapel in San Giovanni in Laterano. From 1737 to 1738 he was director of the Académie de France à Rome.

Melchior de Polignac led him in 1725 the Congregation of San Louis of the French. On their behalf L' Estache made ​​the bust of Cardinal Henri Albert de La Grange d' Arquien for the sacristy, the tomb of Charles -François Poerson and various marble sculptures in the choir. A bust resembling that of the cardinal, L' Estache created in 1740. It is located at the Musée Jacquemart -André in Paris and is the only work by him in France.

From 1740 lived in L' Estache a palace at the Church of St. Louis of the French. In 1746 he created the statues of Charlemagne, Louis IX. , Chrodechild and Jeanne de Valois on the facade of the church. The four statues in travertine are loud Lavalle just as mediocre and not as his best work. As L' Estache 1774 died at an advanced age, he was practically forgotten.