Jean Del Cour

Training under Robert Henrard and Gian Lorenzo Bernini is recorded. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Liège and Rome. Work by Jean Del Cour is recorded in the collections of Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium.

• Illustration — Altar in the Virga Jesse Basilica. • Illustration — Reclining Christ, 1696, Sint-Pauluskathedraal, Liege. At the age of 15 he became a sculpture pupil in Liege of the monk Arnold Henrard. After this training he traveled to Rome and became a pupil of Gian Lorenzo Bernini. He was also influenced by Ercole Ferrata. In 1661 he returned to Liege where he started a workshop on the street Soeurs-de-Hasques. He sculpted wood, marble, and ivory for the wealthy leaders of the Prince-Bishopric of Liège. An altar from his hand in Cararra marble is now in the Virga Jesse Basilica that was originally commissioned for Herkenrode Abbey by the abbess there, Anna Catharina de Lamboy. He also made the mausoleum van Allamont in the Saint Bavo Cathedral in Ghent. His only pupil, Jean Hans, never left his service and stayed with him until he died. • Illustration — Monument to Del Cour on Place Saint-Paul, Liege • Illustration — St Hubertus sculpture, 1689, Sint-Jacobskerk, Liege • Illustration — St James sculpture, 1691, Sint-Jacobskerk, Liege • Illustration — John the Baptist, 1682, Sint-Pauluskathedraal, Liege

The following is established of the heading itself.

The following is established of origins and background. Cour died in 1707 at Liège. It is also recorded that jean Del Cour was born in 1627 at Hamoir.