- Auguste Arnaud
Charles Auguste Arnaud (
22 August 1825 –6 September 1883 ), known as Auguste Arnaud was a French sculptor.Life
Arnaud was born at
La Rochelle . A student of the École des Beaux-Arts atAngers , he first came to Paris thanks to a scholarship for his département, joining the workshop ofFrançois Rude . There he exhibited at the entry competition for the Paris École des Beaux-Arts in 1842. He exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1846 to 1865.Producing several busts, such as those of the Comte de Clarac (commissioned in 1852 for the Louvre), the architect Fontaine (1854 - 1858),
Ferdinand de Lesseps and the composer Halévy, Arnaud also produced monumental works such as the "Le Chasseur à pied" and "L'Artilleur" for thepont de l'Alma in 1856-57 - with "LeZouave " et "LeGrenadier " byGeorges Diebolt , these symbolised the victory of France and her allies at theBattle of the Alma in theCrimean War on 20 September 1854. He conceived the tympanum and 35 statues relating to thelife of the Virgin forSées 's cathedral in 1852 and, for his birthplace ofLa Rochelle , he designed a monument to M. Fleuriau de Bellevue (bust and bas-relief in bronze) in 1853.Having failed to win an 1858 competition for a commission to create a statue of king Don Pedro II of Portugal, and affected by the failure of his "Vénus aux cheveux d'or" ("Golden-haired Venus") at the Salon of 1863 despite its purchase by
Napoleon III , Arnaud fell little by little into madness. He died horribly in a railway accident in 1883.Works
* "Portrait of comte
Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste de Clarac , conservateur of antiquities at the Louvre (1777 - 1847)" (1854),herm bust, marble, Paris,musée du Louvre
* "Portrait ofPierre François Léonard Fontaine , architect of the Louvre (1762 - 1853)" (1857), herm bust, marble, Paris, musée du LouvreSources
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* Geneviève Bresc-Bautier, Isabelle Leroy-Jay Lemaistre (sous la direction de Jean-René Gaborit, avec la collaboration de Jean-Charles Agboton, Hélène Grollemund, Michèle Lafabrie, Béatrice Tupinier-Barillon), "Musée du Louvre. département des sculptures du Moyen Âge, de la Renaissance et des temps modernes. Sculpture française II. Renaissance et temps modernes. vol. 1 Adam - Gois", Éditions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, Paris, 1998
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