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    Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist piɡal]; 26 January 1714 – 20 August 1785) was a French sculptor whose work was influenced by...
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    name from the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785), and it is the best-known square of the Quartier Pigalle, the Pigalle district. This site is...
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    sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785). Pigalle is famous for being a tourist district, with many sex shops, theatres and adult shows on Place Pigalle and...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pitois, French writer on the occult Jean Baptiste Point du Sable, first settler in Chicago Jean-Baptiste...
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  • Karim Dridi Anne Pigalle, French chanteuse (singer) and multimedia artist Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785), French sculptor Sabine Pigalle (born 1963), French...
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    named after the Place Pigalle, which commemorates the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785) on the border of the 9th and the 18th arrondissement...
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    included Étienne Maurice Falconet Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, and Augustin Pajou. The Comtesse de Feuquieres by Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne. Terracotta, circa 1738...
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    announcement was most prominently declared through her commission from Jean Baptiste Pigalle, of a sculpture representing herself as Amitié [friendship], offering...
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    stands in its center, commissioned by the city from the sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle and inaugurated on 26 August 1765, depicting "the sovereign in Roman...
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    sculpture, where he studied with René-Michel Slodtz, Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne, and Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. From 1761 to 1764, he studied at the École royale...
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    ancient model, and those on the sides are based on sculptures by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1714–1785). The woman drying herself follows a painting by François...
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    Astronomical Union (IAU) in 1976. Pigalle is named for the French sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. To the southwest of Pigalle is the crater Matabei, and to...
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    the institution. Her reception piece, Portrait of the Sculptor Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1770), was praised by Denis Diderot in 1771 for its "beautiful...
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    laid paper, J. Paul Getty Museum 18th century pastel, depicting Jean-Baptiste Pigalle by Marie-Suzanne Giroust on gray-blue paper Portrait of Charles-Joseph...
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    Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ batist ɡʁøz], 21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history...
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    statue was finished by another major monumentalist of the period, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. In the later part of the reign of Louis XV, sculptors began to...
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    One of the two clam stoups of the Église Saint-Sulpice in Paris, carved by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle...
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    the four corners of the pedestal, designed by Jean Chalgrin, are bronze statues by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, depicting the virtues of great monarchs; Force...
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    Museum, (1772) Voltaire nude by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, he Louvre, (1777) Tomb of Maurice de Saxe, by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, Saint Thomas Lutheran Church...
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  • was a Parisian nightclub, located at 66 Rue Pigalle (now Rue Jean-Baptiste Pigalle) in the Place Pigalle, that started in the late 19th-century as a headquarters...
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    Water, Air and Earth. Venus and Mercury, the works of the sculptor Jean Baptiste Pigalle, and two groups of hunters, allegories of the elements (wind and...
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    French baroque sculptors included Étienne Maurice Falconet and Jean Baptiste Pigalle. Pigalle was commissioned by Frederick the Great to make statues for...
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    Its central feature is a sculpture of the Virgin and Child by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. In the 19th century he painter Thomas Couture complemented the...
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    as holy water fonts and rest on rock-like bases sculpted by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. Pigalle also designed the large white marble statue of Mary in the Lady...
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    Parisian nightclub that originally opened as Le Fetiche in 1936 in the Place Pigalle. It has been described as the first lesbian club with dancing and cabaret...
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  • Jean-Baptiste Pater (1728) François Boucher (1731) Jean Louis Tocqué (1731) Etienne Jeaurat (1733) Charles-André van Loo (1735) Jean-Baptiste Pigalle...
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  • Madeleine-Élisabeth Pigalle, sometimes known as Madelon (1751–1827), was a French painter. Born in Sens, Pigalle was distantly related to Jean-Baptiste Pigalle; he is...
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    of this time was spent in Paris where he may have studied under Jean-Baptiste Pigalle. He later made frequent tours to the Continent, enriching his portfolios...
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    also donated to it. The famous statue of the naked philosopher by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle (1776) can now be seen in the Louvre. In 1739, Frederick met the...
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    Succession. He died before the work was finished. It was completed by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, but was destroyed during the French Revolution. Bust of Pope Clement...
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