- Antoine Étex
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name = Antoine Étex
image_size = 200px
caption = Antoine Étex's tomb ofThéodore Géricault (1791-1824),
birth_date =March 20 ,1808
birth_place =Paris
death_date =July 14 ,1888
death_place =Chaville ,Seine-et-Oise
education =
occupation = Sculptor, painter andarchitect
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children =Antoine Étex (
March 20 ,1808 -July 14 ,1888 ), French sculptor, painter andarchitect , was born inParis .He first exhibited in the
Paris Salon of 1833, his work including a reproduction in marble of his "Death ofHyacinthus ", and the plaster cast of his "Cain and his race cursed by God".Adolphe Thiers , who was at this time minister of public works, now commissioned him to execute the two groups of "Peace" and "War", flanking the arch on the east facade of theArc de Triomphe . This last, which established his reputation, he reproduced in marble in the salon of 1839.The French capital contains numerous examples of the sculptural works of Étex, which included mythological and religious subjects besides a great number of portraits. Among the best known of his architectural productions are the tomb of
Napoleon I in theInvalides and a monument of therevolution of 1848 . Étex's tomb ofThéodore Géricault inPère Lachaise Cemetery includes a bronze figure of the painter, and a low-relief version the painter's controversialRaft of the Medusa on a front panel.Étex's paintings include the subjects of
Eurydice and the martyrdom ofSaint Sebastian , and he also wrote a number of essays on subjects connected with the arts. The last year of his life was spent atNice , and he died atChaville ,Seine-et-Oise in 1888. He was buried in theCimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.ources
*PE Mangeant, "Antoine Étex, peintre, sculpteur et architecte, 1808-1888" (Paris, 1894).
*1911Gallery
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