Biography Alexandre Falguière

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falguière s victor of cockfight, book engraving c. 1900, added drapery


falguière born in toulouse. pupil of École des beaux-arts, won prix de rome in 1859; awarded medal of honor @ paris salon in 1868 , appointed officer of legion of honor in 1878.


falguière s first bronze statue of importance le vainqueur au combat de coqs (victor of cockfight) (1864), , tarcisius christian boy-martyr followed in 1867; both exhibited in luxembourg museum , in musée d orsay. more important monuments admiral courbet (1890) @ abbeville , famous joan of arc. other works include eve (1880), diana (1882 , 1891), woman , peacock (a. k. a. juno , peacock), , poet, astride pegasus spreading wings flight. sculpted dancer, based on cléo de mérode today in musée d orsay. in 1870 helped create snow sculpture, la statue de la résistance.


to these works should added monuments cardinal lavigerie , general de la fayette (in washington, dc), , statues of alphonse de lamartine (1876) , st vincent de paul (1879), honoré de balzac, executed société des gens de lettres on rejection of auguste rodin; , busts of carolus-duran , ernest alexandre honoré coquelin (1896).


falguière painter sculptor, inferior in merit. displays fine sense of colour , tone, added qualities of life , vigour instils plastic work. wrestlers (1875) , fan , dagger (1882; defiant spanish woman) in luxembourg, , other pictures of importance beheading of st john baptist (1877), sphinx (1883), acis , galatea (1885), old woman , child (1886) , in bull slaughter-house.


falguière taught; among students francis edwin elwell, ernest henri dubois, julien caussé, laurent marqueste, henri crenier , théophile barrau.


falguière became member of institut de france (académie des beaux-arts) in 1882.


falguière died in paris in 1900 , interred there in père lachaise cemetery, monument pupil marqueste.








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