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(4) Jean-Jacques Caffiéri
(b Paris, 30 April 1725; d Paris, 21 June 1792). Sculptor, son of (2) Jacques Caffiéri. He trained with his father and later with Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne (ii), whose lively portrait style he absorbed. In 1748 he won the Prix de Rome with the bas-relief Cain Killing Abel, and in 1749 he left for Rome; he remained in Italy until 1753, possibly travelling to Naples in that year, where he was disappointed in his desire to participate in the sculptural decoration of Luigi Vanvitelli’s royal palace at Caserta. While in Italy he modelled a number of portrait busts, most notably those of the Abbé Leblanc (1751; untraced) and Benedict XIV (1751; untraced), but his principal Roman work was the large stucco high-relief group of the Trinity crowning the pediment of the high altar of S Luigi dei Francesi, which was commissioned in 1752 by the French ambassador, the Abbé de Canilliac. Executed with the advice of Charles-Joseph Natoire, the director of the Académie de France in Rome, it shows the influence of the Roman Baroque.
Part of the Caffiéri family
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