Jean-Pancrace Chastel (1726–1793) was a French sculptor.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
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.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
He sculpted three fountains in Aix-en-Provence: Mule-Noir, Prêcheurs (1748) and Tanneurs (1761).Aix-en-Provence website: Place PrêcheursDominique 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 He also sculpted the top of the former Corn Exchange. Some of his sculptures can be found in the Musée Granet.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
Personal life He married twice, and had a son. He died in poverty in a hospice in Aix-en-Provence.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
Legacy The Rue Jean Pancrace Chastel in Avignon is named in his honor.Google Maps
Bibliography Serge Conard, Jean-Pancrace Chastel: approche de l'oeuvre, Université, 1973, 230 pages.Google Books
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