Gilles-Lambert Godecharle
Illustration — Charity (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels) Gilles-Lambert Godecharle (2 December 1750 in Brussels − 24 February 1835 in Brussels) was a Belgian sculptor, a pupil of Laurent Delvaux, "the only sculptor of international repute in Delvaux's retinue", who became one of two outstanding representatives of Neoclassicism in the Austrian Netherlands. He was born in the Austrian Netherlands. In response to his early promise, empress Maria Theresa awarded him a stipend that enabled him to travel for his studies, first to Paris, then to Rome.
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Gilles-Lambert Godecharle
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- Born
- 1750 · Brussels metropolitan area.
- Died
- 1835 · Brussels metropolitan area.
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- Belgium
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- sculptor
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- Laurent Delvaux
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Illustration — Charity (Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels) Gilles-Lambert Godecharle (2 December 1750 in Brussels − 24 February 1835 in Brussels) was a Belgian sculptor, a pupil of Laurent Delvaux, "the only sculptor of international repute in Delvaux's retinue", who became one of two outstanding representatives of Neoclassicism in the Austrian Netherlands. He was born in the Austrian Netherlands. In response to his early promise, empress Maria Theresa awarded him a stipend that enabled him to travel for his studies, first to Paris, then to Rome.
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He received official commissions under Napoleon and under William I of the Netherlands. His pediment sculptures for the Chamber of Representatives and the Senate of the Austrian Netherlands, now the Belgian Federal Parliament, Brussels, (1781–82) are his most prominent public commission, represented today by a careful copy following his models conserved at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels but by far the greatest part of his output was in portrait busts. His son Napoleon Godecharle bequeathed an important part of the family fortune to the City of Brussels, to establish the Prix Godecharle for painters, sculptors and architects.
Training under Laurent Delvaux is recorded. Daniel Pletinckx is recorded as having studied under Gilles-Lambert Godecharle. Work by Gilles-Lambert Godecharle is recorded in the collections of Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Museum of Fine Arts Ghent (MSK), Museum Plantin-Moretus, Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium and Cleveland Museum of Art.
Portret van een man - Gilles-Lambert Godecharle - Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent
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Portret van een man - Gilles-Lambert Godecharle - Museum voor Schone Kunsten Gent
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- 1.The Sculpture Journal, (Liverpool University Press) 5/6, 2001:108.
- 2.The other, according to Chandler Rathfon Post, was Charles François Van Poucke. Post, Chandler R. A History of European and American Sculpture, Harvard University Press, 1921, Volume 2, p. 106,
- 3.L'art au Sénat: découverte d'un patrimoine p. 26.
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