- Léon Fagel
Léon Fagel (1851-1913) was a French sculptor, best known for his busts.
Fagel was born in
Valenciennes , won the secondPrix de Rome in 1875, and thePrix de Rome in 1879. He exhibited busts of Chevreul, J. Cavelier, and Le Greffeur at theExposition Universelle (1900) , along with two large reliefs for Sacré-Cœur (Faith and Fortitude).Selected works
* Paris
** "La Loi et La Justice",Cour des Comptes
** "La Vierge des Marins", Sacré-Cœur
** "Lettres",Sorbonne
** "Michel Eugène Chevreul ",Jardin des Plantes
** "Sculpture",Place du Carrousel
** "Silvestre ",Comédie-Française
* Elsewhere
** "Art", École National Supérieure d'Arts et Metiers Centre de Lille,Lille
** "Catherine Joséphine de Raffin ", Musée des Beaux-Arts,Valenciennes
** "Charles-François Daubigny ",Auvers
** "Joseph-François Dupleix ",Landrecies
** "Monument to theBattle of Wattignies (1793) ",Maubeuge References
* Daniel Cady Eaton, "A Handbook of Modern French Sculpture", Dodd, Mead and Company, 1913, page 265.
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