- Mathurin Moreau
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Mathurin Moreau (1822-1912) was a French sculptor in the academic style.
Moreau was born in Dijon, first exhibited in the 1848 Salon, and finally received a medal of honor from the Salon in 1897. He was made mayor of the XIXe arrondissement, Paris, and in 1912 had a street named in his honor.
Selected works
- La Fileuse, marble, Palais du Luxembourg
- Cologne, limestone, 1865, façade de la gare du Nord
- Nymphe fluviale, the Place du Theâtre-Français, Paris (1874)
- L'Océanie, from the Exposition Universelle (1878), Musée d'Orsay courtyard
- Zenobe Gramme, bronze, Musée des Arts et Métiers courtyard, Paris
- Monument de Joigneaux, for which he received the medal of honor, Salon of 1897
- Tomb of Zenobe Gramme, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris, circa 1901
- Lord Strathcona Fountain, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, unveiled 1 July 1909
References
Categories:- 1822 births
- 1912 deaths
- French sculptors
- People from Dijon
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