Alexandre Falguière
Jean Alexandre Joseph Falguière (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ alɛksɑ̃dʁ ʒozɛf falɡjɛʁ]; also given as Jean-Joseph-Alexandre Falguière, or in short Alexandre Falguière) (7 September 1831 – 20 April 1900) was a French sculptor and painter.[1]
Biography
Falguière was born in
Falguière's first
To these works should be added his monuments to
Falguière was a painter as well as a sculptor. His Wrestlers (1875) and Fan and Dagger (1882; a defiant Spanish woman) were in the Luxembourg, and other pictures of importance are The Beheading of St John the Baptist (1877), The Sphinx (1883), Acis and Galatea (1885), Old Woman and Child (1886) and In the Bull Slaughter-House.[1]
Falguière also taught; among his students were Francis Edwin Elwell, Ernest Henri Dubois, Julien Caussé, Laurent Marqueste, Henri Crenier and Théophile Barrau.
Falguière became a member of the Institut de France (Académie des Beaux-Arts) in 1882.[1]
Falguière died in Paris in 1900 and was interred there in the Père Lachaise Cemetery, where his monument is by his pupil Marqueste.
See also
- Léonce Bénédite (biographer)
- List of works by Alexandre Falguière
Notes
- ^ a b c d e f public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Falguière, Jean Alexandre Joseph". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 10 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 147. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the
- ^ "Vainqueur au combat de coqs". Archived from the original on 25 October 2006. Retrieved 28 November 2006.
- ISBN 978-1-4169-4066-1.
External links
- Media related to Alexandre Falguière at Wikimedia Commons
- Works by or about Alexandre Falguière at Internet Archive
- (in French) Insecula: index to pages displaying Falguière's work (it may be necessary to close an advertising window to view this page)
- Alexandre Falguière in American public collections, on the French Sculpture Census website