- Ernest-Eugène Hiolle
Ernest-Eugène Hiolle (May 5, 1834 - October 5, 1886) was a French sculptor who specialized in classical and allegorical figures in plaster and bronze, as well as many contemporary portrait busts.
Hiolle was born in
Valenciennes , where he studied at the École Académique, before studying underFrançois Jouffroy andLaurent Séverin Granfils at theÉcole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He was runner up in thePrix de Rome of 1856 and in 1863 won the award. Exhibiting at the Salon from 1866, he won medals from 1867-1870. After 1870 he participated in the great public building projects of theFrench Third Republic with sculpture for thePalais Garnier , theHôtel de Ville, Paris , and elsewhere. In 1873 he was made a Chevalier of theLégion d'honneur . At the salon of 1877 he exhibited bronze busts of Jouffroy andJean-Baptiste Carpeaux , and at that of 1878 a bronze statue of GeneralMaximilien Sebastien Foy . He also won a medal of honour at theExposition Universelle (1878) Selected works
* Narcissus,
Jardin du Luxembourg , 1869
* Arion assis sur un dauphin,Jardin du Luxembourg , 1870
* St. Jean de Matha, Panthéon, 1878
* L'Amérique du Nord,Musée d'Orsay squareReferences
* Clara Erskine Clement Waters, Laurence Hutton, "Artists of the Nineteenth Century and Their Works", Houghton, Osgood, 1879.
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