Pierre de l'Estache explained

Pierre de l'Estache (Paris - 28 November 1774, Rome) was a French sculptor.

He produced a copy of the Kallipygian Venus in Rome in 1722-23, for Augustus the Strong's Grosser Garten in Dresden (this copy was destroyed with the gardens in 1945).^[1] He was president of the French Academy in Rome in 1737-1738. His son Charles de L'Estache was also a sculptor (?-14 March 1811)

Bibliography

• Anne-Lise Desmas, Pierre de L'Estache (1688 ca. - 1774) : un sculpteur français à Rome entre institutions nationales et grands chantiers pontificaux, in Studiolo, 1, 2002 (includes a catalogue of his work, biography, reception and bibliography)

Notes and References

1. Web site: l'Estache. www.lestache.com. 2007-11-23. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927125807/http://www.lestache.com/catalogo/03-04.htm. 2007-09-27. live.