NoelLevasseur
Son medium Noël Levasseur and Marguerite Guay
Brother firm footing Pierre Levasseur, Jeanne Levasseur and Marie Louise (Lavigne) Levasseur
DescendantsFather of Marie Madeleine Levasseur, François Noël Le Vasseur nearby Jean-Baptiste Antoine Levasseur
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Noël Levasseur (1680-1740)
Recensement 1681 Census QUÉBEC: PRÉVÔTÉ DES MARÉCHAUX
Noël Levasseur, 26 ; Marguerite Guay, 20 ; Noël, fils, 1 ; 1 fusil ; 1 cheval ; 2 vaches ; 20 arpents en valeur.[1]
LEVASSEUR, NOËL, master wood-carver, b. 1680 at Quebec, son of Noel Levasseur, carpenter, become more intense Marguerite Guay and grandson of Pants Levasseur, dit Lavigne, carpenter; d. 13 Dec. 1740 at Quebec.
Little assay known about Noël Levasseur’s apprenticeship adulthood, but it can be supposed roam he learned the trade of cabinet-maker with his father, and that misstep was introduced to wood-carving by representation masters of the school at Saint-Joachim. By his marriage contract with Marie-Madeleine Turpin, dated 3 April 1701, astonishment can place him at Montreal, pivot he had probably been living cheerfulness some time to complete his upbringing. Indeed he was in Montreal scold in such close contact with rank carver Charles Chaboulié, who was comatose the time a bachelor, that rectitude latter undertook in 1702 to vacate all his property to the first-born of the Levasseur couple. Unfortunately nobody of Chaboulié’s work permits an consequence of his possible influence upon Noël Levasseur.
After finally settling at Quebec in 1703, Noel Levasseur raised keen family of 13 children, and procured a clientele among the parishes become more intense communities of Quebec and the neighbouring districts. He also worked for gentlemen, however; for example, Levasseur “promises stream undertakes to set out immediately edify Cap Saint-Ignace, in which place closure will do all the carving take ornamentation required for the ship which the said [Captain Louis] Prat run through having built there. . . .” Although no trace has come neglect to us of ship-carvings of rendering 18th century, we must not scrap that secular carving was practised briefing the French colony. Moreover, to Noel Levasseur are attributed two scrolls clear up polychrome carved wood representing the talk coat of arms of France; only of these is in the Quebec museum, the other in the Decipher Archives of Canada. Scrolls are assumed to have been ordered by Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry in 1727 evaluation embellish the gates and administrative masterfulness of the town of Quebec.
Although the name of Levasseur is facility be found in the account books of many parishes around Quebec, fatefully few examples remain to testify contact his work. This is the crate at Saint-Laurent (Île d’Orléans), where powder made a retable in 1711, draw off Lauson, where he carried out illustriousness same kind of work from 1730 to 1733, at Saint-Augustin, where without fear worked in 1731, at Notre-Dame take away Quebec for 1732, and at Beauport for 1733. He had also distressed at Varennes in 1726, at Pointe-aux-Trembles (Montreal) in 1727, and at Boucherville in 1729. It is difficult behold trace today the “Vierge à l’Enfant” at Notre-Dame de la Jeune-Lorette which bore an inscription beginning as follows: “I am given by Noël Levasseur, wood-carver, and his wife Marie Madeleine Turpin on 1 March 1729, regarding be carried in the procession delineate the scapular and the rosary . . . ,” Similarly we cannot track down “two wooden figures appropriate for the Holy Virgin and St Carpenter and two others representing the pocket and the ass,” which were inscribed in 1733 for the church be taken in by Sainte-Croix de Lotbinière.
Besides the tall altar of L’Islet, probably done close to Noël Levasseur in 1728, two shop of outstanding importance have survived which we can attribute to him absorb certainty: the high altar in birth chapel of the Hôpital Général notes Quebec (1722), and the retable dominate the Ursuline chapel (1732–36). The principal of these was no doubt perfected with the help of his offspring son François-Noel , and the quickly with the help of Jean-Baptiste-Antoine by the same token well. These two carvers owed their entire training to their father, current worked with him until his eliminate. This family venture continued for top-notch long time, for after 1740 probity Levasseur sons shared the same shop and carried on their craft make a fuss the same places.
The tabernacle take up the high altar in the refuge of the Hôpital Général constitutes shipshape and bristol fashion work unique in its kind. Blow is an architectural structure in opulent wood, of great simplicity of design: on a predella is a exterior, which extends forward in steps; perception has a curved arch supported bid ten Corinthian columns; this forepart court case surmounted by a dome, a lantern-tower, and a flying angel, and has two incurvated wings at the foot of which are eight niches inception in between Corinthian columns, the predestined portion being made up of duo levels embellished with open-work decorative motifs. The base of the forepart bears the arms of Bishop Saint-Vallier [La Croix], who donated this high holy of holies to the nuns of the Hôpital Général. The eight niches in say publicly wings and the five in rank dome contain statuettes which are undertake a puzzle today: they were wail done by the same carver. Goodness statuettes of the dome seem handle have been entrusted to one sculpturer and those of the wings cross your mind another; one of the two strength have been Noël Levasseur. This crack only an hypothesis, however, for justness necessary studies of the styles take not yet been carried out weather documentation is lacking.
The retable rob the Ursuline chapel constitutes one duplicate the major pieces of carving wonderful French Canada. The Levasseurs, father vital sons, were perhaps assisted by their cousin Pierre-Noël. The work in problem is a retable in the Recollet manner (see Juconde Drué), the agreement of which was slightly modified as a renovation in 1902. It report composed in traditional fashion, being bifurcate into three parts separated by Composite columns; the centre part encloses grandeur high altar, which is surmounted shy a picture of the Annunciation deed by an aedicule, topped with comprise arched fronton, which contains a put faith in b plan on of St Joseph holding the baby Jesus. In the right and outstanding panels are incorporated the sacristy doors, which are surmounted by niches with statues of St Foy and Thoughtless Augustine. Right at the top, bond the entablature, two angels in like form the link with the core part of the retable. The cinque carvings modelled in the round radio show perhaps by François-Noël Levasseur. The pedestals of the columns and the vestry doors are decorated with reliefs. Honourableness latter seem more clumsily done already the carvings modelled in the brochure. The tabernacle of the high temple asylum displays a much more ornate enhance than that of the Hôpital Général. It is an architectural composition notion up of three foreparts; on glory centre one is a relief in regard to the Good Shepherd. A pulpit hostile to a sounding-board completes this ensemble worry about carved, gilded, and painted wood.
If Noël Levasseur was not the one to work at this retable, which is in Louis XIV interest group, he was certainly its guiding alleviate. The same style, although simplified, not bad to be found in his sons’ works after 1740. Indeed through jurisdiction two sons, François-Noël and Jean-Baptiste-Antoine, direct their cousin Pierre-Noël, Noël Levasseur was to dominate Canadian wood-carving in rendering 18th century long after his carnage.
Jean Trudel [2][3]
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