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Baron Henri Joseph François de Triqueti (24 October 1803 – 11 May 1874), also speltHenry de Triqueti, was a French sculptor and artist.
Henri Joseph François de Triqueti was born in the Château du Perthuis inConflans-sur-Loing,[1][2] the son ofPiedmontese industrialist and diplomat Baron Michel de Triqueti, a native ofAnnecy.[3] In 1788, Michel Triquet was made a baron by KingVictor Amadeus III of Sardinia and the name changed to Triqueti.[4]
Triqueti's career started around 1830, when he turned to sculpture, and away from painting, which had been his chief preoccupation up to this point. Triqueti progressively assumed the position of one of theJuly Monarchy’s official sculptors, obtained the patronage of King Louis-Philippe. The bronze doors of thechurch of La Madeleine in Paris (1834–41), and the tomb effigy ofFerdinand-Philippe d’Orléans (1842) are the key works of the first period of his career, the "French" phase (1831–48).[citation needed]
With the fall of the July Monarchy in 1848, Triqueti redoubled his efforts in England, establishing links with prestigious patrons, chief among them the royal couple. His standing as an artist, his deep piety and extensive knowledge of Renaissance art endeared him toPrince Albert[citation needed]; his "English" phase lasted from 1849 until his death.
In 1859, Triqueti createdCleopatra Dying, an ivory and bronze sculpture on a marble and ebony base, shown atP. & D. Colnaghi & Co., bought by Sir Ivor Guest and since 2019 at theVictoria and Albert Museum, London.[5] An archetype of afemme fatale, it was a popular subject in Victorian art and the firstchryselephantine work to arrive in England.[6]
In England, he is best known for histarsia wall panels and marble tomb-chest for the Albert Memorial Chapel,Windsor Castle, in 1864–1874.[7][8] A tarsia panel in St Michael's church atTeffont Evias, Wiltshire, installed in 1863, depicts thechoir of angels.[9] There are also three memorials by Triqueti atSt James's Church, Draycot Cerne, Wiltshire; these are toWilliam Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 5th Earl of Mornington, Adelaide Wellesley and Cecil Wellesley.[10]
He married Julia Philippine Forster, granddaughter of the British sculptorThomas Banks, with whom he had two children: Blanche Eugénie Cécile Sophie de Triqueti Childe and Édouard Henry de Triqueti.
Through his relationship with the English sculptorSusan Durant, one of his students, he was the father of the diplomat SirPaul Harvey, born in 1869.[11]
Henry de Triqueti died on 11 May 1874 at his house 65, Rue d'Amsterdam in the 8th arrondissement of Paris,[12] and was buried at thePère-Lachaise cemetery.[13]
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