Jean Antonin Mercié

Mariou Jean Antonin Mercié, French sculptor, born in Toulouse on October 30, 1845 and died on December 14, 1916 in Paris.

A student of Jouffroy and Falguière, Mercié won the Grand Prix de Rome when he was 23 years old.

Works in the United States

*"Robert E. Lee Monument", Monument Avenue, Richmond, Virginia, (1890)

*"General Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette Monument", Lafayette Square, Washington D.C., (1891)

*"Francis Scott Key Memorial", Baltimore, Maryland, (1911)

References

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*DuPriest Jr., James E. and Douglas O. Tice, Jr. "Monument & Boulevard:Richmond's Grand Avenues", A Richmond Discoveries Publication, Richmond, Virginia, 1996

*Goode, James M. "The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D.C.", Smithsonian Institute Press, Washington D.C. 1974

*Mackay, James, "The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze", Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977

*Rusk, William Sener, "Art in Baltimore: Monuments and Memorials", The Norman Remington Company, baltimore, 1924