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(2) Jacques-Philippe Bouchardon
(b Chaumont-en-Bassigny, Haute-Marne, 1 May 1711; d Stockholm, 19 Dec 1753). Sculptor and draughtsman, brother of (1) Edme Bouchardon. He studied with his father but enlisted in the army in 1730 and was bought out only with the help of the Comte de Caylus. By 1735 he had entered his brother’s studio in Paris and probably collaborated on his works for St Sulpice, the fountain in the Rue de Grenelle and the Bassin de Neptune at Versailles. In 1740 the Swedish ambassador in Paris, Count Carl Gustav Tessin, arranged for Jacques-Philippe to travel to Stockholm to work on the decoration of the Royal Palace. His principal task was to carve reliefs on the ceiling of the chapel and over the windows (where he placed figures of the 12 Apostles) and to carve the pulpit, which has heavy Baroque drapery and a baldacchino (1749–51; in situ). He also worked on a relief of Christ at Gethsemane (destr.). Other work in the palace includes the eight groups of putti carrying lanterns on the main staircase (1752; cast in bronze, 1754–62), which quickly became a popular motif in Swedish decorative arts. Jacques-Philippe also received numerous commissions for sculpted portraits, which remain his most original products. Works such as the painted terracotta of Gustav III as a Child (c. 1750; Stockholm, Nmus.) show the technical skill of Edme Bouchardon with a distinctively personal grace and charm. The most popular of his portraits was the bust of Charles XII, originally designed in 1747 (Stockholm, Kun. Slottet), of which numerous replicas in bronze were issued. Jacques-Philippe’s work on royal commissions was interrupted by a journey to Rome in 1751 and curtailed by his premature death two years later.
Part of the Bouchardon family
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