Artist:
Laurent Marquest
Title:
Monument a Barye
Year:
1894
Adress:
Pont Sully
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eleve de l'ecole des beaux-arts de Toulouse, il integre les ateliers de François Jouffroy et d'Alexandre Falguiere a l'ecole des beaux-arts de Paris. Il obtient le prix de Rome en 1871 pour La Flagellation du Christ et est reçu comme pensionnaire a la villa Medicis de 1872 a 1875.
Il expose au Salon pour la premiere fois en 1874 avec Jacob et l'Ange, pour y revenir regulierement. Membre du « groupe des Florentins » avec Alexandre Falguiere, Antonin Mercie, Paul Dubois et Henri Chapu, il enseigne a partir de 1893 a l'ecole des beaux-arts de Paris, et entre a l'Academie des beaux-arts en 1900. Professeur, entre autres, de la classe de jeunes filles, il eut pour eleve Raymonde Martin (1887-1977).
Il fut souvent sollicite par la municipalite parisienne, et ses oeuvres sont nombreuses dans la capitale (jardin des Tuileries, jardin du Luxembourg, Hotel de ville, pont Alexandre-III, etc.).
Translation
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His virtuosic work, often combining two figures, tended to be executed by specialist carvers working by pointing up his models, as had become common studio practice among French sculptors in the later nineteenth century.
Among his commissions are a large number of allegorical architectural figural sculptures, historical portraits (Victor Hugo, and Geographie for the Sorbonne, 1901) and others for the monumental Gare d'Orsay (now the Musee d'Orsay), the College des Beaux-Arts, the Grand Palais for the 1900 Exposition, and the Hotel Dufayel, Avenue des Champs-elysees (1906, demolished). Public monuments by Marquest are to be found also, in which was very much criticised; as well as monuments for North[3] and South America. He was also the author of portrait busts and statues of Victor Hugo, Leo Delibes, Ferdinand Fabre and a large output of classical subjects. He gained the Grand Prix at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900.
His portrait bust, sculpted by Ernest Henri Dubois, is at the Musee des Augustins, Toulouse, which also has a considerable series of statuettes and maquettes, or sculptural sketches. His papers are conserved at the Centre historique des archives nationales.
eleve de l'ecole des beaux-arts de Toulouse, il integre les ateliers de François Jouffroy et d'Alexandre Falguiere a l'ecole des beaux-arts de Paris. Il obtient le prix de Rome en 1871 pour La Flagellation du Christ et est reçu comme pensionnaire a la villa Medicis de 1872 a 1875.
Il expose au Salon pour la premiere fois en 1874 avec Jacob et l'Ange, pour y revenir regulierement. Membre du « groupe des Florentins » avec Alexandre Falguiere, Antonin Mercie, Paul Dubois et Henri Chapu, il enseigne a partir de 1893 a l'ecole des beaux-arts de Paris, et entre a l'Academie des beaux-arts en 1900. Professeur, entre autres, de la classe de jeunes filles, il eut pour eleve Raymonde Martin (1887-1977).
Il fut souvent sollicite par la municipalite parisienne, et ses oeuvres sont nombreuses dans la capitale (jardin des Tuileries, jardin du Luxembourg, Hotel de ville, pont Alexandre-III, etc.).
Translation
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His virtuosic work, often combining two figures, tended to be executed by specialist carvers working by pointing up his models, as had become common studio practice among French sculptors in the later nineteenth century.
Among his commissions are a large number of allegorical architectural figural sculptures, historical portraits (Victor Hugo, and Geographie for the Sorbonne, 1901) and others for the monumental Gare d'Orsay (now the Musee d'Orsay), the College des Beaux-Arts, the Grand Palais for the 1900 Exposition, and the Hotel Dufayel, Avenue des Champs-elysees (1906, demolished). Public monuments by Marquest are to be found also, in which was very much criticised; as well as monuments for North[3] and South America. He was also the author of portrait busts and statues of Victor Hugo, Leo Delibes, Ferdinand Fabre and a large output of classical subjects. He gained the Grand Prix at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900.
His portrait bust, sculpted by Ernest Henri Dubois, is at the Musee des Augustins, Toulouse, which also has a considerable series of statuettes and maquettes, or sculptural sketches. His papers are conserved at the Centre historique des archives nationales.