Pierre Puget, belonged to a famous family which played a great role at the court of the counts de Provence. He was born in Marseilles, October 31 1622, in the district of the Panier (the house or he was born is still visible with the angle of the streets of the small-well and well-of-sum of money). During its first youth, France still did not offer the useful establishments rested by Louis XIV to level with engineering the road of the fine arts, and Italy, when it went there to seek a Master and models, had fallen into a decline of which it was not to be raised any more. To the fourteen years age, it was placed near a manufacturer of galères named Roman which, at the end of one year, not finding more anything to teach to him, rested entirely on him construction of a *galère which was looked like a masterpiece of construction and naval sculpture.
In 1643, the duke of Brézé, admiral de France, charged it drawing and with making carry out a man-of-war which exceeded in magnificence all that one had seen moreover in vain in this kind. It was whereas Puget, old of blackjack years, invented these colossal poops, decorated with a double row with projecting galleries, and figures in low-relief and of round bump which one promptly imitated in the various ports, and which made for a long time the admiration of all Europe.
This building was called " the Queen ", and was finished into 1646. Large Sculptor, Architect and painter, Puget had taken for currency this proverb: " No good without sorrow ", and it never spent a day without working.
One can still find some of his works, in Aix or Marseilles, in particular the dome of the old charity, ovoid cupola. It also carved the escutcheon with the weapons of France of the balcony of the town hall (replaced today by a copy, the original being with the museum of beautiful arts).
Rule of Pierre PUGET
in top of the course Pierre Puget
(Puget garden)
The house of Pierre PUGET
(angle of the streets of Rome and Palud)
(Drawing de M. J.-B. OLIVE)
In 1694, year of its death, Puget worked with all the energy of its talent to the low-relief of the plague of Milan.
The town of Marseilles made raise with this great man in front of the house which it lived, street of Rome, a surmounted column of its bust, and carrying this inscription: " A Pierre Puget, sculptor, painter and architect, Marseilles his fatherland which it embellishes and honoured ".
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