Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
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Jean-Baptiste Pigalle was a French sculptor whose work was influenced by both baroque and neo-classical trends.
Portrait by Marie-Suzanne Roslin, 1770
Mercury putting on his running shoes (Louvre) (1753)
Chapel of the Virgin, Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris
Voltaire nude (The Louvre, 1777)
Place Pigalle
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The Place Pigalle is a public square located in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, between the Boulevard de Clichy and the Boulevard de Rochechouart, near the Sacré-Cœur, at the foot of the Montmartre h
Jean-Baptiste Pigalle
…relative from Sens. His name is most commonly known today because of the Pigalle red-light district in Paris, located around the square of the same name, Place Pigalle. Pigalle died in Paris on 20 August 1785…
Place Pigalle, Paris 9e
Place Pigalle (c. 1910), painted by Eugène Galien-Laloue
Café de la Nouvelle Athènes at the Place Pigalle, before 1900