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Daniel Katz Ltd
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Medium
Terracotta
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Dimensions
109.00cm high
( 42.91 inches high)
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Description / Expertise
Jacques Bergé entered the Guild of the Quatre Couronnés (the corporation of masons, stonecutters, sculptors and slate-quarrymen) in Brussels in 1714 and served his apprenticeship with the sculptor François Delpier. In 1715 he entered the studio of Nicolas Coustou in Paris. This stay in the French capital and a subsequent period in Rome, between 1717 and 1719 were to mark all of Bergé’s work. At the age of 26 he became a master in the Brussels guild and in 1737 he became the co-director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
Bergé worked mainly for two abbeys of the Premonstratensian order: Parc in Leuven and the abbey at Ninove. He also worked at Notre-Dame du Finistère and at St Nicolas, both in Brussels.
Our Saint Nicholas can be compared to Saint Gregory the Great, also in terracotta, in the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, particularly the texture of their undulating, heavy cloak.
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