Charles Degeorge

Charles Degeorge's statue La jeunesse d'Aristote

Charles Jean Marie Degeorge (1837–1888) was a French sculptor whose best-known work, La jeunesse d'Aristote (The Youth of Aristotle) (1875) depicts the philosopher as a semi-nude teenage boy sitting in a large chair, looking bored as he studies a scroll. The statue is currently^[update] in the Musée d'Orsay.

Degeorge also sculpted a bust of Henri Regnault which was incorporated into Regnault's monument at the École des Beaux Arts, Paris.

External links

• Courtauld Institute: Monument to Henri Regnault
• Three views of La jeunesse d'Aristote from Insecula:
  • Right
  • Front right
  • Front left

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Name	Degeorge, Charles
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Date of birth	1837
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Date of death	1888
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