Antoine Étex

Antoine Étex
Antoine Étex
	Étex in 1876, by Nadar
Born	March 20, 1808; Paris, France
Died	July 14, 1888 (aged 80); Chaville, Seine-et-Oise
Occupation(s)	Sculptor, painter and architect

Antoine Étex (March 20, 1808 Paris – July 14, 1888 Chaville) was a French sculptor, painter and architect.

Biography

He first exhibited in the

Paris Salon of 1833, his work including a reproduction in marble of his Death of Hyacinthus, and the plaster cast of his Cain and His Race Cursed By God. Adolphe Thiers, who was at this time minister of public works, now commissioned him to execute the two groups of Peace and War, flanking the arch on the east facade of the Arc de Triomphe. This last, which established his reputation, he reproduced in marble in the Paris Salon of 1839.^[1]

The French capital contains numerous examples of the sculptural works of Étex, which included mythological and religious subjects besides a great number of portraits.

Raft of the Medusa on a front panel.^{[citation needed}

]

Étex's paintings include the subjects of

Cimetière du Montparnasse

in Paris.

Works

Sainte-Geneviève, marble, 1830, Clamecy, collégiale Saint-Martin
Caïn et sa race maudits de Dieu, marble, (1832–1839), Lyon, musée des Beaux-Arts
La Résistance de 1814, stone, (1833–1837), Paris, arc de triomphe de l'Étoile, western façade^[2]
La Paix, stone, (1833–1837), Paris, arc de triomphe de l'Étoile, western façade^[3]
Tombeau de
Géricault, Paris, Père Lachaise Cemetery, its plaster model was at the 1841 Salon, Rouen, Musée des Beaux-Arts

Portrait de Léon Pelet, bust, marble, 1848, Paris,
musée du Louvre^[4]

Portrait du baron Dufour, maire de Metz (1769–1842), medal, marble, 1845, Metz, Grand salon de l'Hôtel de Ville
Médaillon du poète Auguste Brizeux (1803–1858) at the cemetery of Carnel in Lorient; medal, marble, 1858