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Joseph Jaquet, sometimes written Joseph Jacquet, (30 January 1822 - 9 June 1898) was a Belgian sculptor.
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Revue 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
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Joseph Jaquet, sometimes written Joseph Jacquet, (30 January 1822 - 9 June 1898) was a Belgian sculptor.
Biography
Joseph Jaquet, born inAntwerp
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in Belgium, was the son of a baker.
He studied with Guillaume 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 s ...
at the Brussels
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Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts
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and was the friend of Peter Ludwig Kühnen
Peter Ludwig Kühnen (also known as Pieter Lodewyk Kuhnen or Pierre-Louis Kuhnen) (14 February 1812 – 23 November 1877) was a German painter, watercolorist and lithographer.
Biography
He was born in Aachen on 1812 as the son of a local b ...
(1812–1877), a painter originating from Aachen
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, 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 ...
Raymond Blyckaerts Place
in
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''; sometimes known as John Froissart in English; – ) was a French-speaking medieval author and court historian from the Low Countries who wrote several works, including ''Chronicles'' and ''Meli ...
for Chimay
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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
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, then the pediment and lions on the Brussels Stock Exchange
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in 1872.
In 1879, Joseph Jaquet designed a statue of Louise of Orléans
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, 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
Charles Samuel (; 29 December 1862, in Brussels – 3 February 1938 or 1939, in Cannes) was a Belgian sculptor, engraver and medalist.
Life
Samuel was born in Brussels and trained there. He studied engraving with Léopold Wiener, sculpt ...
.
He died in 1898 in Schaerbeek
(French language, French, ; former History of Dutch orthography, Dutch spelling) or (modern Dutch language, Dutch, ) is one of the List of municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, 19 municipalities of the Brussels, Brussels-Capital Reg ...
in the Brussels-Capital Region
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.A street bears his name in Schaerbeek (in French
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: Rue Joseph Jacquet, in Dutch
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: Joseph Jacquetstraat): this street goes from François-Joseph Navez
François-Joseph Navez (16 November 1787 in Charleroi – 12 October 1869 in Brussels) was a Belgian Neoclassicism, Neoclassical painter; known for his portraits and Genre art, genre scenes.
Biography
As the son of an alderman, in a privileged f ...
street to George Stephenson
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street.
Honours
* Officer of the Order of Leopold Order of Leopold may refer to:
* Order of Leopold (Austria), founded in 1808 by emperor Francis I of Austria and discontinued in 1918
* Order of Leopold (Belgium), founded in 1832 by king Leopold I of Belgium
* Order of Leopold II, founded in Congo ...
* Officer of the Order of the Oak Crown
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History
The Order of the Oak Crown was established in 1841 by William II of the Netherlands, Grand Duke William II, who was also King o ...
* Member of the Royal Academy of Science, Letters and Fine Arts of Belgium
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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