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Jean Claude Chamberlano Duplessis (Turin, 1699-1774, Paris)
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Bronze
After a marble by Nicolas Coustou (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
Signed 'Duplessis'
35,5 cm high
Provenance:
- Comte du Luc collection
- His sale, 22 and 23 December 1777, ‘N 18 Deux figures, en pendants .../... l'autre est un Berger, d'après celui en marbre de l'entrée de la terrasse des Tuileries, que feu M. le Comte a fait exécuter par Duplessis, excellent Artiste .../... hauteur 13 pouces’
Published:
- C .F. Julliot et F.C. Joullain fils, Catalogue des Tableaux, Figures de bronze etc. composant le cabinet de feu M. le Comte du Luc, Paris, 22 et 23 décembre 1777
Related literature:
- Knoedler, The French bronze, New York, 1968, n° 45 A & B.
- François Souchal, French Sculptors, the reign of Louis XIV, Faber, London, 1977 Tome 1, page 168 (for Coustou marble)
- Geneviève Bresc-Bauthier, Sculptures des jardins du Louvre, RMN, 1986, p. 115
- Sculptures Françaises, Musée du Louvre, RMN, 1998, page 166
On Duplessis:
- Stanislas Lami, Dictionnaire des sculpteurs de l’école française au dix-huitième siècle. III, 1910
Jean-Claude Chamberlano Duplessis (also known as Giovanni Claudio Chiamberlano) practised as a goldsmith in Turin and probably worked for Victor Amadeus II. He moved with his family to Paris c. 1740, perhaps encouraged there by Juste-Aurèle Meissonnier. In 1742 he was commissioned by Louis XV to design and make two large bronze braziers, presented to the Turkish ambassador Saïd Mahmet Pasha (Istanbul, Topkapi Palace Museum). From c. 1748 until his death he was employed at the porcelain factories of Vincennes and Sèvres as a designer of porcelain forms and supplier of bronze stands. He also supervised and advised craftsmen. In 1751 he produced drawings for the first major dinner-service commissioned by Louis XV and in 1758 he was designated Orfèvre du Roi.
He played an influential role at the factory in the development of new porcelain forms in the Rococo style, and most of the shapes from the 1750s and many from the 1760s are attributed to him or bear his name. These include such vases as the Bras de Cheminée Duplessis (London, Victoria and Albert Museum), the Vase à têtes d’éléphant, which incorporates candelabra (c. 1756; London, Wallace Collection) and such pieces of Rococo fantasy as the Saucière Duplessis in the form of an antique lamp (1756; Paris, Musée du Louvre).
Duplessis continued to maintain his own silversmithing and bronze-founding interests in Paris. The Marquise de Pompadour was one of his customers.
The marble sculpture by Nicolas Coustou (1658-1733) that inspired the present bronze was made for Marly in 1710. It was moved to the Tuileries a few years later. (see Souchal, related lit.)
Jean-Baptiste-Félix-Hubert de Vintimille, marquis des Arcs et Comte du Luc (1720-1777) was lieutenant of the King’s army and governor of Marseille. On Louis XV orders, he married Pauline de Mailly de Nesle, the king’s mistress. He was an avid collector.
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