Jean Delcour

Delcour traveled to Rome in 1650, spending a decade studying under Gian Lorenzo Bernini and absorbing the emotional intensity and swirling drapery of High Baroque sculpture. Returning to Liège, he became the city's foremost sculptor for forty years.

He decorated Saint Lambert's Cathedral and religious houses throughout Wallonia with dynamic wood and marble figures. In 1696, following the bombardment of Liège by Marshal Boufflers, Delcour sculpted the bronze Three Graces crowning the historic Perron fountain in Place du Marché, the civic emblem of Liège liberties.