Antonin Mercié

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Antonin Mercié
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Marius Jean Antonin Mercié (October 30, 1845 in Toulouse – December 12, 1916 in Paris), was a French sculptor, medallist[1] and painter.

Biography

Antonin Mercié in 1916

Mercié entered the

Paris Salon. The bronze was subsequently placed in the Square Montholon.[2]

The bronze David was one of his most popular works. The

Donatello's David, but with a turbanned head and sheathing his long sword. Numerous reproductions exist, most of which incorporate a loincloth that covers David's genitalia but not his buttocks. The lifesize original is now in the Musée d'Orsay
.

Mercié was appointed Professor of Drawing and Sculpture at the École des Beaux-Arts, and was elected a member of the

Société des artistes français. Marie-Antoinette Demagnez was among his many students at the École des Beaux-Arts.[3][4] He died in Paris on December 12, 1916.[5]

Works

Genius of Arts, Louvre, Paris
Monument to Paul Baudry, Père Lachaise Cemetery, Paris

The Genius of the

Tuileries, in substitution for Antoine-Louis Barye's Napoleon III. A similar work for the tomb of Jules Michelet (1879; designed with architect Jean-Louis Pascal) is in Père Lachaise Cemetery, and in the same year Mercié produced the statue of Arago with accompanying reliefs, now erected at Perpignan.[2]

In 1882 he repeated his great patriotic success of 1874 with a group Quand Même!, replicas of which have been set up at Belfort and in the garden of the Tuileries. Le Souvenir (1885), a marble statue for the tomb of Charles Ferry, is one of his most beautiful works.[citation needed] Regret, for the tomb of Alexandre Cabanel, was produced in 1892, along with William Tell, subsequently at Lausanne.[2]

Mercié also designed the monuments to

Louis-Philippe and Queen Amélie for their tomb at Dreux. His stone group of Justice is at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris.[2]

Numerous other statues, portrait busts, and medallions came from the sculptor's hand, which gained him a medal of honor at the

Michelangelo studying Anatomy (1885), his most dramatic work in this medium.[2]

Mercié is known in

Baltimore, Maryland
.

Gallery

See also

References

  1. ^ L. Forrer, Mercié, Antonin (1909). Biographical Dictionary of Medallists. Vol. IV. London: Spink & Son Ltd. pp. 34–35.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ a b c d e f  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Mercié, Marius Jean Antonin". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 18 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 152–153.
  3. ^ "Buste En Terre Cuite Par M. A. Demagnez". ProAntic.com. Archived from the original on 28 April 2015. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  4. ^ "Julian Academy". sites.Google.com. Retrieved 29 January 2016.
  5. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1922). "Mercié, Marius Jean Antonin" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 31 (12th ed.). London & New York: The Encyclopædia Britannica Company. p. 913.
  6. ^ "Major General Marquis Gilbert de Lafayette, (sculpture)". Inventory of American Sculpture, Smithsonian Institution Research Information System. Smithsonian American Art Museum. IAS DC000217.

Further reading

  • DuPriest Jr., James E. and Douglas O. Tice, Jr. Monument & Boulevard:Richmond's Grand Avenues, A Richmond Discoveries Publication, Richmond, Virginia, 1996
  • Goode, James M. The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 1974
  • Mackay, James, The Dictionary of Sculptors in Bronze, Antique Collectors Club, Woodbridge, Suffolk 1977
  • Rusk, William Sener, Art in Baltimore: Monuments and Memorials, The Norman Remington Company, baltimore, 1924

External links

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