- Jean-Joseph Carriès
Jean-Joseph Marie Carriès (
February 15 ,1855 -July 1 ,1894 ) was a Frenchsculptor , ceramist, and miniaturist. Born inLyon , Carriès was orphaned at age six and was raised in aRoman Catholic orphanage. He apprenticed with a local sculptor then in 1874 moved toParis to study at theÉcole des Beaux-Arts underAugustin-Alexandre Dumont . He first showed at theParis Salon of 1875 and gained considerable recognition for his sculpted busts at theParis Salon s of 1879 and 1881. However, after seeing an exhibition ofJapan ese works at the 1878 World's Fair in Paris, he began to devote himself to the creation ofpolychrome "Horror Masks".Jean-Joseph Carriès was a friend of
John Singer Sargent who painted his portrait in 1880. [http://jssgallery.org/Paintings/Portrait_of_Jean_Joseph_Marie_Carries.htm]His works exhibited at the Salon du Champ-de-Mars in 1892 were widely acclaimed and were acquired by the French Ministry of Culture and by the a museum in
Hamburg ,Germany . That year, the government of France made him a member of theLegion of Honor . In 1894, a year after he had sculpted perhaps his most famous work entitled "Faune", Jean-Joseph Carriès died ofpleurisy at the age of thirty-nine.References
* [http://perso.orange.fr/puisaye/poterie.nault/dynapoterie.html?histoca Biography of Jean-Joseph Carriès] (French language)
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