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Gerard van Opstal or Gérard van Opstal (1594 or 1597, Brussels〔''Messager des sciences historiques, des arts et de la bibliographie de Belgique'', Gand, 1854 : "Archives des Arts, des Sciences et des lettres, sculpteurs et sculptures, Noms des sculpteurs qui ont fait partie du métier des Quatres-Couronnés à Bruxelles, depuis 1621 à 1716", p. 363 : "''Gérard Van Opstal, bourgeois, apprenti chez Nicolas Diedon, reçu en cette qualité le 30 novembre (1621). Note 2 : La présence ici du nom de Gérard Van Opstal en qualité d'apprenti, et la qualification de bourgeois qui lui est donnée, tranchent la question du lieu de naissance de cet artiste en faveur de Bruxelles (Voy. Baert, pp. 69 et l44)''".〕 – 1668, Paris), was a Flemish Baroque sculptor mainly active in Paris. ==Biography== He was born in 1594 or 1597 in Brussels or Antwerp as the son of Anton van Opstal.〔 He was trained around 1630 by Niklaas Diodone.〔(Master ivory carvers: Gerard van Opstal )〕 He became master in the Antwerp Guild of St. Luke in 1635 and had a registered pupil there in 1641. He was a son-in-law of the Antwerp sculptor Johannes van Mildert.〔(Gerard van Opstal ) in the Netherlands Institute for Art History 〕 When his father-in-law died, he was contracted by the local city magistrates to complete the sculpture of Christ for the Calvary group on the Falconplein (Falcon square) in Antwerp. He moved to Paris before 1648, presumably at the explicit invitation of Cardinal Richelieu.〔 Here he became one of the founders of France's Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture.〔 Van Opstal was awarded the title 'sculpteur des batiments du roi' (Sculptor of the king's buildings) in 1651.〔 He is particularly important for having brought a legal case in 1667 against the widow of a patron, Duchemin, intendant to Mademoiselle d'Orléans, for nonpayment of a commission dating from 1658. This case consisted of an effort to argue for sculpture as a liberal rather than mechanical trade. (Paul Duro, The Academy and the Limits of Painting in Seventeenth-Century France (Cambridge: 1997), p. 20 ) In 1667 Van Opstal also delivered a conférence at the Académie royale on the "Laocöon". His son Louis van Opstal also became a sculptor. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gerard van Opstal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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