Martin Desjardins

Martin van den Bogaert known as Martin Desjardins is a French sculptor of Dutch origin born with Breda in 1637 and died in Paris in 1694.

Biography

It receives its artistic formation with Antwerp and about its twentieth year, it is established in France where it Marie and francizes her name in Desjardins . It will primarily carry out its career of sculptor in France. Its first remarkable works will be carried out on royal order for Versailles, in particular a Diana the Huntress , inspired by the antique, in 1680, whose many copies will be carried out.

He is the author of the pedestrian statue of Louis XIV Place of the Victories in Paris which was molten under the French revolution and of the statues of the four captive nations (Spain, Empire, Brandebourg and Holland) out of gilded bronze which decorated the base of it (1682 - 1685 (they were preserved and are with the Musée of Louvre). A marble copy of the statue of Louis XIV is visible with the Orangerie of Versailles.

He is also the author of a equestrian Statue of Louis XIV, installed in 1713 on the Place Bellecour with Lyon. It, it, will be also destroyed by the revolutionists. Only a small-scale model carried out by a pupil is preserved at Louvre. On its base, low-reliefs represented the the Rhone and the the Saone; they were saved destruction and are preserved today at the Town hall of Lyon.

Friend of the painter Pierre Mignard, it carved the marble bust of it.

Works

Portrait of the painter Pierre Mignard (1612 - 1695) , bust, marble, Paris, museum of Louvre
Portrait of Edouard Colbert, marquis de Villacerf (1629 - 1699) , bust, marble, Paris, museum of Louvre

Iconography

Hyacinthe Stone, Portrait of Martin van den Bogaert, known as Desjardins (1692), oil on fabric, h. 1,41 m; L. 1,06 m, Paris, Museum of Louvre

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