Martin Desjardins
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Martin Desjardins or Martin van der Bogaert (Breda 1637 – Paris 2 May 1694) was a French sculptor and stuccoist of Dutch birth, whose career was spent at Paris, where he was working from the 1650s. His early Paris work was in decorative stucco reliefs, at the Hôtel d’Aubert de Fontenay (Hôtel Salé) and the Hôtel de Beauvais (staircase). He was accepted into the Académie de St Luc as "Martin Desjardins" in 1661, and gained a reputation executing private commissions for funerary monuments. In 1671 he was received as a member of the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture on the basis of a marble relief of Hercules Crowned by Glory (Louvre Museum).
From this time he received royal commissions, at Les Invalides and at Versailles. His Four Captive Nations (1682-85) celebrated the early victories of the armies of Louis XIV over the alliances of Spain, the Holy Roman Empire, Brandenburg and Holland (Louvre Museum).
His portrait bust of Pierre Mignard, premier peintre du Roi was a gift to the painter's daughter in the year following Mignard's death (Louvre Museum).
