Jean-Pancrace Chastel (1726–1793) was a French sculptor.
Biography
Early life
He was born in Avignon in 1726 and moved to Aix-en-Provence as a young boy.
Career
He was the first professor to teach at the School of Sculpture in Aix-en-Provence, founded in 1774.
He sculpted three fountains in Aix-en-Provence: Mule-Noir, Prêcheurs (1748) and Tanneurs (1761). He also sculpted the top of the former Corn Exchange. Some of his sculptures can be found in the Musée Granet.
Personal life
He married twice, and had a son. He died in poverty in a hospice in Aix-en-Provence.
Legacy
The Rue Jean Pancrace Chastel in Avignon is named in his honor.
Bibliography
- Serge Conard, Jean-Pancrace Chastel: approche de l'oeuvre, Université, 1973, 230 pages.
References
- Le musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence, Musées et monuments de France, 2007, p. 84
- ^ André Hallays, The Spell of Provence, L.C. Page & Company, 1923, p. 90
- Michel Racine, Ernest J.-P. Boursier-Mougenot, Françoise Binet, The gardens of Provence and the French Riviera, MIT Press, 1987, p. 65
- Notice sur la bibliothèque d'Aix, dite de Méjanes: précédée d'un Essai sur l'histoire littéraire de cette ville, sur ses anciennes bibliothèques publiques, sur ses monuments, etc., Firmin Didot frères, 1831, p. 289
- Aix-en-Provence website: Place Prêcheurs
- Dominique Massounie, Les monuments de l'eau: aqueducs, châteaux d'eau et fontaines dans la France urbaine, du règne de Louis XIV à la révolution, Monum Ed. du patrimoine, 2009
- Dominique Auzias, Jean-Paul Labourdette, Les 100 plus beaux musées de France 2012 , Petit Futé, 2012, p. 164
- Alexandre Maral, Sculptures: la galerie du Musée Granet, Somogy, 2003, p. 54
- Ambroise Roux-Alphéran, Les rues d'Aix : Recherches historiques sur l'ancienne capitale de la Provence, Aix-en-Provence: Typographie Aubin, 1846, p. 620-621
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